and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’
17. What shall I do? Wicked men are driven to perplexity in their deliberations, because they do not know how any thing is to be lawfully used; “Pource qu’ils ne scavent point quel est le droit et legitime usage des creatures de Dieu;” — “because they know not what is the proper and lawful use of the creatures of God.” and, next, because they are...
This man appeals to Christ as though his brother's refusal to divide the inheritance were a matter worthy of divine judgment, when his real disease is covetousness, a sinful desire for more than God in His providence has allotted him. He wants Christ to overturn the law itself, not to right a wrong.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 12:13-21
And, he thought within himself,.... And foolish thoughts they were; he did not think of God, or that there was one, and much less that he was the author, of all his outward prosperity and plenty; and was still further off of thinking of returning thanks to God for it: or of asking counsel of him, what he should do with it; but he consults...