r Lk, ix. 58; αὐτῷ, “ Διδάσκαλε, ἀκολουθήσω σοι, ὅπου ἐὰν amépyy.” 20. Kat xiii. 32. 3 : κ x & Lx. ir. 58 λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, “Ai " ἀλώπεκες "φωλεοὺς ἔχουσι, καὶ τὰ Ιχ. 6 α a ε ε A a Ch. xix. 8. πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ “κατασκηνώσεις: 6 δὲ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ . Vil,
g2_(with ἔχει, TOU τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνη. 21. Ἕτερος δὲ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ 1 1n +). I A , ae . a ,
Cor. xvi. εἶπεν αὐτῷ, “ Κύριε, " ἐπίτρεψόν por πρῶτον ἀπελθεῖν καὶ " θάψαι τὸν 7. Heb. vi. = A
3 (absol.). πατέρα pov. 22. Ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς 3 εἶπεν ὃ αὐτῷ, ““᾿Ακολούθει pou,
ν Ch. xiv. : 12. Lk. ix. 59; Xvi. 22.
1 ΜΒ omit αυτου, which here as often required.
2 On the authority of §§, Tisch. omits ο Σλεγει in NBC 33.
tioned because they alone could be meant.—Ver. 19, els, either ‘tone, a scribe’ (Weiss and very decidedly Meyer, who says that els never in Ν. T. = τὶς), or ‘a certain scribe,” indefinite reference, so Fritzsche, falling back on Suicer, I., p. 1037, and more recently Bleek and others. Vide Winer, § xviii. 9, who defends the use of ets for tis as a feature of later Greek.—ypoppatetds, a scribe! even one of that most unimpressionable class, in spirit and tendency utterly op- posed to the ways of Jesus. A Saul among the prophets. He has actually become warmed up to something like enthusiasm. A striking tribute to the magnetic influence of Jesus.—axohov- θήσω: already more or less of a disciple— perhaps he had been present during the teaching on the hill or at the encounter between Jesus and the scribes in re washing (xv. 1 f.), and been filled with admiration for His wisdom, moral earnestness and courage; and this is the result. Quite honestly meant, but. —Ver. 20, λέγει αὐτῷ 6 |. Jesus dis- trusted the class, and the man, who might be better than the average, still he was a scribe. Christ’s feeling was not an unreasoning or invincible pre- judice, but a strong suspicion and aversion justified by insight and experience. Therefore He purposely paints the pro- spect in sombre colours to prevent a connection which could come to no good.—at ἀλώπεκες, etc.: a notable say- ing; one of the outstanding logia of Jesus, in style and spirit characteristic ; not querulous, as if lamenting His lot, but highly coloured to repel an undesir- able follower. Foxes have holes, and birds resting places, roosts (not nests, which are used only for breeding), but— ὁ δὲ vids τοῦ ἀνθρώπον: a remarkable designation occurring here for the first
elsewhere occurs in T. R., where it is not
ἵησους found in BCLA al.
time. It means much for the Speaker, who has chosen it deliberately, in con- nection with private reflections, at whose nature we can only guess by study of the many occasions on which the name is used. Here it seems to mean the man simpliciter (son of man = man in Hebrew or Syriac), the unprivileged Man: not only no exception to the rule of ordinary human experience in the way of being better off, but rather an exception in the way of being worse off; for the rule is, that αἱ] living creatures, even beasts, and still more men, have their abodes, however humble. If it be Mes- sianic, it is in a hidden enigmatical way. The whole speech is studiously enigma- tical, and calculated to chill the scribe’s enthusiasm. Was Jesus speaking in parables here, and hinting at something beyond the literal privations of His life as a wanderer with no fixed home? The scribe had his spiritual home in Rabbinical traditions, and would not be at ease in the company of One who had broken with them. Jesus had no place where He could lay His head in the religion of His time (vide my With Open Face, chap. ix.). Vv. 21-22. Another disciple. “Erepos, another, not only numerically (ἄλλος), but intype. The first was enthusiastic ; this one is hesitating, and needs to be urged; a better, more reliable man, though contrasting with his neighbour unfavourably.—_rav μαθητῶν: the ex- pression seems to imply that the scribe was, or, in spite of the repellent word of Jesus, had become, a regular disciple. That is possible. Ifthe scribe insisted, Jesus might suffer him to become a disciple, as He did Judas, whom doubtless He instinctively saw through from the beginning. But not likely. The in- ference may be avoided by rendering with Bleek ; ‘‘ another, one of the disciples”’.—