And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
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 said unto him, man,.... Or "friend", as the Ethiopic version renders it; that is, Jesus said to him, as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions express it: who made me a judge, or a divider over you? referring to the words of one of the Hebrews to Moses, when he interposed in a difference, Exo 2:14 suggesting, that the same might be retorted...
Verse 14. Who made me a judge? It is not my business to settle controversies of this kind. They are to be settled by the magistrate. Jesus came for another purpose--to preach the gospel, and so to bring men to a willingness to do right. Civil affairs are to be left to the magistrate.