He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Parallel Translations
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He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
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And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes:
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And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Luke 12:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- James 3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
- James 4:15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
- Luke 12:21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
- Luke 18:6 The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
- Psalms 17:14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
- Luke 18:4 He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 18 And he said, This will I do: I…
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Ver. 18. My barns] So my fruits, and my goods, all was his; God came not into this epicure’s thoughts. Hic Deus nihil fecit, Here God does nothing, one wittily twitted Pope Adrian, talking after the same rate.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said, this will I do,.... This was…
And he said, this will I do,.... This was the resolution he came to, and which he took up, without consulting God, or asking leave of him:
I will pull down my barns, and build greater; which was not a very wise one; for he might have let his present barns have stood, and have added new ones to them:
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and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods; he ascribes the increase of his substance to himself, and reckons them his own acquisitions, and entirely owing to his diligence and industry; and therefore calls them my fruits, and my goods; and accounts them his good things, his only good things; as worldly men place all good and happiness in outward enjoyments, having no notion of spiritual and eternal good things he determines to lay up all in his barns, for his own use and service, and nothing for God and his interest, nor any thing for the poor and their relief.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. I will pull down, &c.] The rich…
Verse 18. I will pull down, &c.] The rich are full of designs concerning this life, but in general take no thought about eternity till the time that their goods and their lives are both taken away.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I will pull down my barns - The word…
I will pull down my barns - The word “barns” here, properly means, “granaries,” or places exclusively designed to put wheat, barley, etc. They were commonly made, by the ancients, “underground,” where grain could be kept a long time more safe from thieves and from vermin. If it be asked why he did not let the old ones remain and build new ones, it may be answered that it would be easier to “enlarge” those already excavated in the earth than to dig new ones.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. Pull down—His barns then are not, as they…
18. Pull down—His barns then are not, as they often were among the Jews, caves of the earth or rocks. They are tall buildings; but he must have still more spacious ones.
My fruits—My products.
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My goods—The heathen philosophers, especially the Stoics, denied that perishable things should be called goods. But to this man they were, indeed, my goods. They were his life, than which he knew no life higher, and which he considered to consist in the abundance of his possessions.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. my barns] Rather, storehouses (apothekas—not only for corn).…
18. my barns] Rather, storehouses (apothekas—not only for corn). He never thought of the admonition of the Son of Sirach, “Shut up alms in thy storehouses,” Sir_29:12.
my fruits] Not the same word as before. Rather, my produce.
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my goods] Such ‘good things’ as he was alone capable of recognising, Luk_16:25. And “all my goods,” with no mention of the poor.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) I will pull down my barns.—The Greek noun…
(18) I will pull down my barns.—The Greek noun (apothekè, whence our “apothecary,”) has a somewhat wider meaning, and includes storehouses or warehouses of all kinds.
All my fruits.—Here, too, the Greek word is somewhat wider. Literally, produce—i.e., crops of every kind.
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