Vv. 43-51. Two parables: the Thief and the Two Servants, enforcing the lesson: Watch !|—Ver. 43. γινώσκετε, observe, nota bene.—ei ἤδει: supposition contrary to fact, therefore verbs in prot. and apod. indicative.—é κλέπτης, admir- ably selected character. It is the thiet’s business to keep people in the dark as to the time of his coming, or as to his coming at αἱ].---οἰκοδεσπότης suggests the idea of a great man, but in reality it
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διορυγῆναι 1 τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ. 44. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὑμεῖς γίνεσθε ἔτοιμοι" ὅτι ᾗ Spa οὐ δοκεῖτε ὁ vids τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται. 45. Τίς ἄρα ἐστὶν ὁ πιστὸς δοῦλος καὶ φρόνιµος, ὃν κατέστησεν ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ ὃ ἐπὶ τῆς θεραπείας” αὐτοῦ, τοῦ διδόναι 5 αὐτοῖς τὴν ΄ e Lk. xii. 42 τροφὴν "ἐν °xatp@; 46. µακάριος 6 δοῦλος ἐκεῖνος, ὃν ἐλθὼν ὁ
᾿κύριος αὐτοῦ εὑρήσει ποιοῦντα οὕτως.5
f Ch. xxv. 5.
ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ὑπάρχουσιν αὐτοῦ καταστήσει αὐτόν.
4]. ᾽Αμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι 48. ᾿Εὰν δὲ
Lk. i. αι εἴπῃ 6 κακὸς δοῦλος ἐκεῖνος ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ, ‘ Χρονίζει ὁ κύριός
(to tarry,
with ἐν); rou” ἐλθεῖν,ὃ 49. καὶ ἄρξηται τύπτειν τοὺς curdoddous,° ἐσθίειν δὲ καὶ
xii. 45.
Heb. x.37. πίνειν 29 μετὰ τῶν µεθυόντων, 50. ἥξει ὁ κύριος τοῦ δούλου ἐκείνου
6 here and
in Lk. xii. ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ οὐ προσδοκᾷ, καὶ ἐν Gpa ᾗ οὗ γινώσκει, 51. καὶ * διχο-
46. h same phrase in
, Si. uP ‘ xh , > ~ x A ς A h 64 Sy ~ TOPN TEL QUTOV, και TO μερος αυτου μετα των υποκριτων ησει εκει.
Lk. xii. 46. ἔσται 6 κλαυθμὸς καὶ 6 βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων.
1 διορυχθηναι KEDIL 33; as in Τ. R. in BAX.
2 4 ov δοκειτε ωρα in SgBDI. 4 ouxeteras in BILAZ (W.H.).
3 S8BDIL 1, 33 al. omit αυτου.
θεραπειας in D ail,
ὕδουναι in SBCDILAZ. διδοναι is from Lk.
© ovtws ποιουντα in KEBCDIL. ® ΜΒ 33 omit ελθειν. 10 εσθιη δε και πινη in SBCDIL.
is a poor peasant who is in view. He lives in a clay house, which can be dug through (sun-dried bricks), vide διορυχθῆ- ναι in last clause. Yet he is the master in his humble dwelling (cf. on vi. 19).— Ver. 45. τίς, who, taken by Grotius, Kuinoel, Schott, etc. = εἴ τις, sz quis, supposing a case. But, as Fritzsche points out, the article before π. δοῦλος is inconsistent with this sense.—mtorés, φρόνιµος: two indispensable qualities in an upper servant, trusty and judicious.— θεραπείας (T. R.), service = body of ser- vants, οἰκετείας (Β., W.H.), household =domestics.—Ver. 46 answers the ques- tion by felicitation.—paxdptos, implying that the virtue described is rare (vzde on chap. v. 3): a rare servant, who is not demoralised by delay, but keeps stead- fastly doing his duty.—éwt π. τ. ὑπάρ- χουσι, this one among a thousand is fit to be put in charge of the whole of his master’s estate.—Ver. 48. The other side of the picture—éav δὲ .. . ἐκεῖνος: not the same individual, but a man placed in the same fost (‘cui eadem provincia sit demandata,” Schott).—xpovifer (again in xxv. 5): the servant begins to reflect on the fact that his lord is late in coming, and is ἀεπιοτα]ϊςεά.---ἄρξηται, he (now) begins to play the tyrant (τύπτειν) and
µου before ο κυριος in SBCDIL al,
® S$BCDIL add αυτον.
to indulge in excess (ἐσθίῃ καὶ πίνῃ.. etc.). Long delay is necessary to pro- duce such complete demoralisation.— Ver. 50. ἥξει: the master comes at last, and of course he will come unexpected. The delay has been so long that the un- worthy servant goes on his bad way as if the master would never come at αἱ].--- Ver. 51. διχοτοµήσει, he will cut him in sunder as with a saw, an actual mode of punishment in ancient times, and many commentators think that this barbarous penalty is seriously meant here. But this can hardly be, especially as in the follow- ing clause the man is supposed to be still alive. The probable meaning is: will cut him in two (so to speak) with a whip = thrash him, the base slave, unmerci- fully. It is a strong word, selected in sym- pathy with the master’s rage. So Schott: “verberibus multis eam castigavit’’. Koetsveld, De Gelijk., p. 246, and Grimm (Thayer) but with hesitancy. Beza and Grotius interpret: will divide him from the family = dismiss him.—pera τῶν ὑποκριτῶν, with the hypocrites, {.ε., eye- servants, who make a great show of zeal under the master’s eye, but are utterly negligent behind his back. In Lk. the: corresponding phrase is τῶν ἀπίστων, the unfaithful.