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For when I am weak, then I am strong." The Good News: You must accept that in life there will be hardships, times of weakness, and hurt. If you give all of those moments up to God, you will feel ...
The Hanged Man's House, Cézanne, 1873. The Parable of the strong man (also known as the parable of the burglar and the parable of the powerful man) is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew 12:29, Mark 3:27, and Luke 11:21–22, and also in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas where it is known as logion 35 [1]
The strong man is bound and chained in tartarus, bruised by the Lord’s foot. Yet ought we not therefore to be careless; for here the conqueror Himself pronounces our adversary to be strong." [2] Chrysostom: "He calls him strong, showing therein his old reign, which arose out of our sloth." [2]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. The New International Version translates the passage as: A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.
A short scripture to meditate on today, Friday, June 7.
Fortunately, there are quick ways to start your morning (or any time of day, really) strong and rooted in our religious beliefs, which brings us to this short, daily devotional (and Bible verse of ...
Rabanus Maurus: "Took them not that He should have them Himself, but that He should take them away from us; and bare our sicknesses, in that what we were too weak to bear. He should bear for us." [3] Saint Remigius: "He took the infirmity of human nature so as to make us strong who had before been weak." [3]
And he who is not weak with the weak, cannot make the weak strong.” [1] John McEvilly notes that "He sat there" in order to wait for the people to flock to Him. He also notes that the people were seized with admiration, because the prophecy of Isaias 35:5 was being fulfilled, "then shall be opened the eyes of the blind", etc. [2]