32—43:
ἀνθρώπου.
Σκατακλυσμοῦ, "τρώγοντες καὶ πίνοντες, γαμοῦντες καὶ exyapiLovtes,”
297
38. ὥσπερ] γὰρ ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταῖς mpd τοῦς Lk. xvii.
27. 2Pet. iii. 6. a here and
ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας εἰσῆλθε Νῶε εἰς thy κιβωτόν, 39. καὶ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, in John,
ἕως ἦλθεν ὁ , - ε A ΄ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
καὶ 65 eis ἀφίεται. παραλαμβάνεται, καὶ µία ἀφίεται.
42.“ Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε Tota ἔρχεται: 43. ἐκεῖνο δὲ γινώσκετε, ὅτι εἰ δει ὁ
¢ refi.
υ κατακλυσμὸς καὶ ἠρεν ἅπαντας, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ὃ ἡ belowand » η ?
remarks.
b Lk. xvii.
κ " 4 27. Heb.
40. “Τότε δύο Ecovrart ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ: ὁδ els παραλαμβάνεται, iz οἱρᾶί. ee Bh
41. δύο "ἀλήθουσαι ἐν τῷ µύλωνιδ: pia 7 2°
Rev.xi.19.
πράος
ὥρα Ἰ ὁ κύριος ὑμῶν ΄ Acts xiv,
ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης ποίᾳ 10 a He
φυλακῇ ὁ κλέπτης ἔρχεται, ἐγρηγόρησεν ἄν, καὶ οὐκ ἂν “ εἴασε of person
and inf.).
L ws in NBL 33. 5 BD omit και,
®uvdw in SBLAZ. D has µνλωνι, may not be so soon as even 1 think or you expect). speaking concerning the second advent seems to have two faces; providing on the one hand for the possibility of a Christian era, and on the other for an accelerated Parusia.
Vv. 37-42. Watch therefore (cf. Lk. xvii. 26-30, 34-36).—Ver. 37. αἱ ἡμέραι +. Noe, the history of Noah used to illus- trate the uncertainty of the Parusia.— Ver. 38. ἦσαν with the following parti- ciples is not an instance of the peri- phrastic imperfect. It rather stands by itself, and the particles are descriptive predicates. Some charge these with sinister meaning: τρώγοντες, hinting at gluttony because often used of beasts, though also, in the sense of eating, of men (John vi. 58, xiii. 18). So Beza and Grotius; γαμοῦντες καὶ γαμίζοντες, eu- phemistically pointing at sexual licences on both sides (Wolf, “‘omnia vagis libi- dinibus miscebantur”). The idea rather seems to be that all things went on as usual, as if nothing were going to happen. In the N. T., and especially in the fourth Gospel, τρώγω seems to be used simply as a synonym for ἐσθίω. In like manner all distinction between ἐσθίειν and χορτά- τεσθαι (= to feed cattle in classics) has disappeared. Vide Mk. vii. 27, 28, and consult Kennedy, Sources of New Testa- ment Greek, p. 82,—Ver. 39. οὐκ ἔγνω- σαν, they did not know, scil., that the flood was coming till it was on them.— Ver. 40, 41 graphically illustrate the suddenness of the Parusia.—els els (νετ. 40) instead of els ἑτέρος, so pia µία in ver. 41. Of these idioms Herrmann in
His whole manner of
29D 33 have the simple γαμιζοντες (Tisch., W.H.). * εσονται δυο in NB.
§ 0 in both places omitted in BDL. 7 ημερα in ΝΒΓΔΣ, cursives.
Viger (p. 6) remarks: “' Sapiunt Ebrais- mum '.--- παραλαμβάνεται, ἀφίεται, one is taken, one left. The reference may either be to the action of the angels, ver. 31 (Meyer), or to the judicial action of the Son of Man seizing some, leaving free others (Weiss-Meyer). The sen- tences are probably proverbial (Schott), and the terms may admit of diverse application. However applied, they point to opposite ἀεςεπίες.---ἀλήθουσαι, grind- ing: ἀλήθω, late for ἀλέω, condemned by Phryn., Ρ. 151.—év τῷ μύλωνι (T. Ε.), in the mill house.—2. τ. μύλῳ (W.H.), in or with the millstone. The reference is to a handmill, which required two to work it when grinding was carried on for a con- siderable time—women’s work (vide Robinson, i., 485 ; Furrer, Wand., p. 97; Benzinger, p. 85, where a figure is given).—Ver. 42. γρηγορεῖτε, watch, a frequently recurring exhortation, imply- ing not merely an uncertain but a delayed Parusia, tempting to be off guard, and so making such repeated exhortations neces- Sary.—roig. ἡμέρᾳ, on what sort of a day, early or late; so again in ver. 43, at what sort of a watch, seasonable or un- seasonable.