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Luke 18:5

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Bonaventure

Yet, because this widow troubles me, through the persistence of prayer, which conquers all things, according to that passage in Judges fourteen concerning the wife of Samson, who "wept before him during the seven days of the feast, and at length on the seventh day, since she was troublesome to him, he explained it." On account of which, above in chapter eleven: "And he from within should answer: Do not trouble me, for my children are with me in bed." "And if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, even if he will not rise and give …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 18 ↗