8-10. stood--before all.
said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord--Mark how frequently Luke uses this
title, and always where lordly authority, dignity, or power is
intended.
if I have--that is, "so far as I have," for evidently the "if" is so
used (as in
Php 4:8).
taken by false accusation--defrauded, overcharged
(Lu 3:12, 13).
fourfold--The Roman law required this; the Jewish law, but the
principal and a fifth more
(Nu 5:7).
There was no demand made for either; but, as if to revenge
himself on his hitherto reigning sin (see on
Joh 20:28),
and to testify the change he had experienced, besides surrendering the
half of his fair gains to the poor, he voluntarily determines to
give up all that was ill-gotten, quadrupled. He gratefully addressed
this to the "Lord," to whom he owed the wonderful change.
JFB.
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