Luke 18:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ποιήσει τὴν ἐκδίκησιν αὐτῶν ἐν τάχει. Πλὴν ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐλθὼν, ἆρα εὑρήσει τὴν πίστιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς;

Transliteration

Legō to-you that poiēsei the ekdikēsin of-them in tachei. Plēn the Hyios of-the anthrōpou elthōn, ara heurēsei the pistin upon the gēs?

Grammar Details

• *Legō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I say/tell
• *poiēsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will do/make
• *ekdikēsin*: accusative feminine singular - vindication/justice
• *tachei*: dative neuter singular - speed/quickness
• *Plēn*: adverb/conjunction - however/nevertheless
• *Hyios*: nominative masculine singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive masculine singular - man/human
• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having come
• *ara*: interrogative particle - indeed/then [question]
• *heurēsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will find
• *pistin*: accusative feminine singular - faith/belief
• *gēs*: genitive feminine singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *poiēsei*: will do/will make/will execute
• *ekdikēsin*: vindication/justice/vengeance
• *tachei*: speed/quickness/swiftly/soon
• *Plēn*: however/nevertheless/yet/but
• *Hyios* *anthrōpou*: Son of Man [Messianic title]
• *elthōn*: having come/when he comes
• *heurēsei*: will find/will discover
• *pistin*: faith/belief/trust/faithfulness

Referenced Verses

• Heb 10:23-26 : 23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
• Matt 24:9-9 : 9 ‹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.› 10 ‹And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.› 11 ‹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.› 12 ‹And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.› 13 ‹But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.›
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 ¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 ‹For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if› [it were] ‹possible, they shall deceive the very elect.›
• Luke 17:26-30 : 26 ‹And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.› 27 ‹They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.› 28 ‹Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;› 29 ‹But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed› [them] ‹all.› 30 ‹Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.›
• 1 Thess 5:1-3 : 1 ¶ But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Jas 5:1-8 : 1 ¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
• Ps 46:5 : 5 God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, [and that] right early.
• Ps 143:7-9 : 7 ¶ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.