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εὐλογημένοι τοῦ πατρός µου, κληρονοµήσατε τὴν ἠτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν τ βασιλείαν ἀπὸ Ἱκαταβολῆς "κόσμου. ἐδώκατέ por φαγεῖν : ἐδίψησα, καὶ ἐποτίσατέ µε: ᾿ ξένος ἤμην, καὶ
"συνηγάγετέ µε" 36. γυμνός, καὶ περιεβάλετέ µε" ἠσθένησα, καὶ Σἐπεσκέψασθέ µε" év φυλακῇ ἤμην, καὶ ἤλθετε πρός µε. ἀποκριθήσονται αὐτῷ οἱ δίκαιοι, λέγοντες, Κύριε, πότε σὲ εἴδομεν πεινῶντα, καὶ ἐθρέψαμεν; ἢ δυψῶντα, καὶ ἐποτίσαμεν - ἢ Ὑγυμνόν, καὶ περιεβάλομεν ;
σε εἴδομεν ξένον, καὶ συνηγάγοµεν ;
Ver. 31. ὅταν δὲ, the description following recalls xxiv. 30, to which the ὅταν seems to refer.—Ver. 32. πάντα τὰ ἔθνη naturally suggests the heathen peoples as distinct from Jews, though the latter may be included, notwith- standing the fact that in one respect their judgment day had already come (xxiv. τ5-22).--ἀφοριεῖ: first a process of separation as in the interpretation of the parable of the tares (xiii. 49).--τά πρόβατα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐρίφων, the sheep from the young goats. Sheep and goats, theugh feeding together under the care of the same shepherd, seem of their own accord to separate into two companies. Tristram and Furrer bear witness to this. —Ver. 33. καὶ στήσει, etc., the bare plac- ing of the parties already judges, the good on the right, the evil on the left; sheep, emblems of the former; goats, of the latter. Why? No profit from goats, much from sheep ; from their wool, milk, lambs, says Chrys., Hom. Ixxix. Lust and evil odour secure for the goat its unenviable emblematic significance, say others: ‘‘id animal et libidinosum et olidum” (Grotius). Lange suggests stubbornness as the sinister quality. More important is the point made by Weiss that the very fact that a separation is necessary implies that all were one flock, z.e., that the judged in the view of Jesus are all professing Christians, dis- ciples true or false.
Vv. 34-40. of εὐλογημένοι τοῦ πατρός pov, my Father’s blessed ones, the participle being in effect a substantive. ---“κληρονομήσατε, etc.: this clause Weiss tegards as a proof that the parable originally referred to disciples, as for them only could the kingdom be said to be prepared from the foundation of the world. Wendt, holding the original