18. Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem (cd podvos mapouxeis "Iepovaarnu). Ilapotxeiv, to dwell as a stranger, is used in later Greek of strangers who have no rights of citi- zenship, and no settled home. Compare Heb. xi. 9. See on strangers, 1 Pet. i. 1; and compare sojourning, 1 Pet. i. 17. The only of the A. V. is commonly understood adverbially : “ Are you nothing but a stranger?” But the emphasis of the question falls there, and the word is an adjective. Render “Dost thou alone dwell as a stranger in Jerusalem?” Are you the only one who sojourns as a stranger in Jerusalem, and who does not know, ete. So, nearly, Wyc., Zhou alone art a pilgrim: in Jerusalem.
18. What things (zoia). Lit., “ what kind of things.”
21. Trusted (7A7ifouev). More correctly, hoped. Imper- fect: were hoping all the while.
Should have redeemed. Rev., more correctly, should re- deem (Autpodatar). See on 1 Pet. i. 18.
Beside all this (avy maou tovros). Lit., with all these things : his betrayal and crucifixion, ete.
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To-day is the third day (tpérnv radrnv nuépay dryer onpepor). The best texts omit to-day. The phrase forms an idiom which cannot be neatly rendered. Literally it is, “He (Christ) is passing (dyet) this day as the third.” Rev., Ié és now the third day since, ete.
22. Made us astonished (é&écrncav). Literally the verb means to put out of place; and so, to drive one out of his senses. Hence the A. V. is feeble. Rev., better, amazed us.
Early (dp9pwat). Lit., early ones. Only here and Apoe. xxii. 16. Compare dp9pos, dawn, ver. 1.
23. That they had seen—which said. Cleopas, absorbed in his story, throws himself back to the time of his interview with the women. Lit., ‘“ They came saying that they have seen a vision of angels which say ” (Aéyouow).
25. Fools and slow of heart (avontou wal Bpadets Th Kapoia). This is an unfortunate translation, in the light of the ordinary, popular use of the word fool. Jesus would never have called those sorrowful disciples fools in that sense. The word is com- pounded of a, not, and voéw, which implies, besides seeing, per- ception of the mind as consequent upon sight. It is therefore equivalent to dull of perception. They had read what the prophets had spoken, but had failed to perceive its application to Christ. While this rebuke relates to the understanding, the following one, slow of heart, goes deeper, and contemplates the region of feeling and moral susceptibility. Your heart is dull and slow to respond to these testimonies of your own prophets. Compare hardness of heart, Mark xvi. 14.
All (eri wacw). Rev., rightly, in all ; relying upon (érl) all the utterances of the prophets.
26. Ought not (ody ée). The A. V. does not convey the precise meaning, which is, that, in the eternal order of things, and in fulfilment of the eternal counsel of God as expressed in
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the prophecies, it was essentially fitting that Christ should suffer. Rev. is clumsy but correct: behoved 2 not the Christ to suffer ?
27. He expounded (Suepprjvvev). Or interpreted : through- out (Sud). Imperfect, he went on interpreting from passage to passage.
28. They went (émopevovro). Imperfect, were goung. So Rey.
Made as though (mpoceroujcato). The verb means origi- nally to add or attach to; hence to take to one’s self what does not belong to him; and so, to pretend ; though pretending as implying anything false, does not attach to this act of Jesus. He was going on, and would have gone on but for their invita- tion. Only here in New Testament.
29. They constrained (zapeBidcavté). Contrary to (mapa) his apparent intention of goingon. Only here and Acts xvi. 15.
Is far spent (xéxruxev). Lit., has declined. Wyc., 1s now bowed down.