Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Luke 12:14
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14. Man, &c.--Contrast this style of address with "my friends," (Lu 12:4).
who, &c.--a question literally repudiating the office which Moses assumed (Ex 2:14). The influence of religious teachers in the external relations of life has ever been immense, when only the INDIRECT effect of their teaching; but whenever they intermeddle DIRECTLY with secular and political matters, the spell of that influence is broken.
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