SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:47
Porque el siervo que entendi la voluntad de su seor, y no se apercibi, ni hizo conforme a su voluntad, ser azotado mucho.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 12:47
Verse 47. Shall be beaten with many stripes.] Criminals among the Jews could not be beaten with more than forty stripes; and as this was the sum of the severity to which a whipping could extend, it may be all that our Lord here means. But, in some cases, a man was adjudged to receive fourscore stripes! How could this be, when the law had decreed only forty? Answer: By doubling the crime. He received forty for each crime; if he were guilty of two offenses, he might receive fourscore. See Lightfoot.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 47. And that servant which knew his Lord's will , etc.] Not his secret, but his revealed will; the will of God, which lies in the declarations of his grace and mercy in the Gospel, and in the commands and ordinances expressed in his word; and which are the good, perfect, and acceptable will of God; the knowledge of which is necessary, in order to practice: and where there is a spiritual and saving knowledge, there will be practice: but there may be knowledge, where there is no practice, and which was the case here: Christ here distinguishes between wicked servants, some being knowing, and others ignorant; and accordingly the aggravations of their guilt are more or less: and prepared not himself; so the Arabic and Ethiopic versions supply, but the Syriac version, for him, that is, for his Lord: but it may as well be read as in the Vulgate Latin, without any supplement, and prepared not; he took no thought nor care about doing it; there is no preparation, readiness, nor disposition, in a natural man, to the will of God: no man is prepared or ready to do it, but he that is regenerated, or is made a new creature; who has the laws of God written on his heart, and who has the Spirit of God put within him, to cause him to keep them; and who has faith in Christ, and strength from him to observe them; but there may be knowledge, where such a preparation is wanting; persons may know much, and profess to know more, and in works deny all, and be to every good work, unfit, disobedient, and reprobate: this clause is left out in the Persic version: neither did according to his will ; the will of God is done aright, when what is done, is done according to the command of God, in the strength of Christ, from love to him, in the exercise of faith on him, and with a view to his glory, and without any dependence on what is done; but there may be knowledge, without any thing of this: the words, neither did, are wanting in the Syriac version: and such a man that has knowledge without practice, shall be beaten with many stripes ; alluding to the law of the Jews, by which a wicked man was to be punished, by beating him with stripes, not exceeding, forty, according to the nature of his fault, ( Deuteronomy 25:2,3) and here it signifies, that persons who have light and knowledge, and the means thereof, and act not according to them, shall be punished with the greatest severity, and endure the greatest degree of torments in hell; (see Matthew 11:21-24) Ver. 48. But he that knew not , etc.] His Lord's will; either not having the means of knowing it, as the Heathens; or through neglect of them, not attending to them, and making use of them, which is the case of many, where the Gospel revelation is: and did commit things worthy of stripes ; or punishment; as the Gentiles, by sinning against the law, and light of nature; and those who might have the advantage of a divine revelation, but neglect it: the Septuagint in ( Deuteronomy 25:2) have the same phrase as here, axiov plhgwn , worthy of stripes: shall be beaten with few stripes ; their punishment shall be less, and it shall be more tolerable for them in the day of judgment, than for knowing professors. The Jews did not always inflict forty stripes, or forty save one, upon delinquents; but according to their crimes, and as they were able to bear them, more or fewer: so it is said f406 , when they judge a sinner, how many (stripes) he can bear, they do not reckon, but by stripes that are fit to be trebled: if they judge he is able to bear twenty, they do not order that he be beaten with twenty one, that so they may be trebled, but that he be beaten with eighteen: if they condemn him to receive forty, and after he is begun to be beaten, they observe him to be weak, and they say he cannot bear any more than these nine, or twelve, with which he has been beaten, lo, he is free; if they condemn him to receive twelve, and after that he is beaten, they see that he is strong and able to bear more, lo, he is free, and he is not to be beaten any more, upon that estimation: if they condemn him today that he is to be beaten with twelve (stripes), and they do not beat him till tomorrow, and lo, tomorrow he is able to bear eighteen, they do not beat him but with twelve. And elsewhere the rule is f407 , he that commits a sin, in which there are two negative (commands broken) if they pronounce but one sentence, he is beaten and is free; but if not (i.e. if more than one) he is beaten, and when he is healed, he is beaten again. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall, much be required : the more knowledge a man has, the more practice is expected from him; and the greater his gifts are, the more useful he ought to be, and diligent in the improvement of them: and to whom men have committed much, or to whom much is committed, of him they will ask the more ; not more than what was committed to him, but more than from him, who has less committed to him; in proportion to what a man is entrusted with, the greater increase and improvement it is expected he should make.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 41-53 - All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know man things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be right which he neglects; therefore all are without excuse in their sin. The bringin in the gospel dispensation would occasion desolations. Not that thi would be the tendency of Christ's religion, which is pure, peaceable and loving; but the effect of its being contrary to men's pride an lusts. There was to be a wide publication of the gospel. But befor that took place, Christ had a baptism to be baptized with, fa different from that of water and the Holy Spirit. He must endur sufferings and death. It agreed not with his plan to preach the gospe more widely, till this baptism was completed. We should be zealous i making known the truth, for though divisions will be stirred up, and man's own household may be his foes, yet sinners will be converted, an God will be glorified.
Greek Textus Receptus
εκεινος 1565 D-NSM δε 1161 CONJ ο 3588 T-NSM δουλος 1401 N-NSM ο 3588 T-NSM γνους 1097 5631 V-2AAP-NSM το 3588 T-ASN θελημα 2307 N-ASN του 3588 T-GSM κυριου 2962 N-GSM εαυτου 1438 F-3GSM και 2532 CONJ μη 3361 PRT-N ετοιμασας 2090 5660 V-AAP-NSM μηδε 3366 CONJ ποιησας 4160 5660 V-AAP-NSM προς 4314 PREP το 3588 T-ASN θελημα 2307 N-ASN αυτου 846 P-GSM δαρησεται 1194 5691 V-2FPI-3S πολλας 4183 A-APF
Robertson's NT Word Studies
12:47 {Which knew} (ho gnous). Articular participle (second aorist active, punctiliar and timeless). The one who knows. So as to me hetoimasas e poiesas (does not make ready or do). {Shall be beaten with many stripes} (daresetai pollas). Second future passive of derw, to skin, to beat, to flay (see on #Mt 21:35; Mr 12:3,5). The passive voice retains here the accusative pollas (supply plegas, present in #Lu 10:30). The same explanation applies to oligas in verse #48.
