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As ἡμέρας γένηται ταῦτα: ἀνθ ὧν οὐκ ἐπίστευσας τοῖς λόγοις µου,
οἵτινες πληρωθήσονται εἰς τὸν καιρὸν αὐτῶν.”
21. Καὶ ἦν ὁ λαὸς
προσδοκῶν τὸν Zaxapiav: καὶ ἐθαύμαῖον ἐν τῷ χρονίζειν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ναῷ. 22. ἐξελθὼν δὲ οὖκ ἠδύνατο λαλῆσαι αὐτοῖς: καὶ ἐπέ- (νωσαν ὅτι ὁπτασίαν ἑώρακεν ἐν τῷ vad- καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν διανεύων
αὐτοῖς, καὶ διέµενε κωφός.
23. καὶ ἐγένετο ds ἐπλήσθησαν αἱ
ἡμέραι τῆς λειτουργίας αὐτοῦ, ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ. {2 Cor. ix.
24. Meta δὲ ταῦτας τὰς ἡμέρας συνέλαβεν ᾿Ελισάβετ ἡ γυνὴ ii 17-39, ευ.
ο ου.
αὐτοῦ, καὶ περιέκρυβεν ἑαυτὴν µῆνας πέντε, λέγουσα, 25. “' Ὅτι 5; ix. 2x. οὕτω µοι πεποίηκεν 67 Κύριος ἐν ἡμέραις, ats ἐπεῖδεν ἀφελεῖν 7d?
ὄνειδός µου ἐν ἀνθρώποις.᾽
26. ΕΝ δὲ τῷ μηνὶ τῷ Extw ἀπεστάλη ὁ ἄγγελος Γαβριὴλ ὑπὸ 3 τοῦ Θεοῦ eis πόλιν τῆς Γαλιλαίας, ἡ ὄνομα Ναζαρέτ, 27. πρὸς παρθένον μεμνηστευμένην * ἀνδρί, ᾧ ὄνομα Ιωσήφ, ἐξ οἴκου Δαβίδ:
καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς παρθένου Μαριάμ.
28. καὶ εἰσελθὼν ὁ ἄγγελος 5
πρὸς αὐτὴν εἶπε, “'Χαΐρε κεχαριτωµένη" & Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ,
1 αντον after εν τω ν. in BLE (W.H.). Order as in T.R. in ΝΔΑΟΓΔ al. (Tisch.), 2 S8CDL 33 omit ο (Tisch., W.H., text, ο in marg.). BA have it. NSBDL 1
“omit το before ονειδος. 3 απο in SRBL 1, 69.
4 εμνηστ. in SABL.
5 BLE 1, 131, cop. omit 9 αγγελος (W.H.).
Vv. 21-22. The people without.—mrpoo- Φοκῶν, waiting; they had to wait. The priest was an unusually long time with- in, something uncommon must have happened. The thought likely to occur was that God had slain the priest as un- worthy. The Levitical religion a re- ligion of distance from God and of fear. So viewed in the Epistle to the Heb- rews. Illustrative quotations from Talmud in Winsche, Beitrdge, p. 413.—Ver. 22. ὁπτασίαν: from his dazed look they inferred that the priest had seen a vision (chap. xxiv. 23, 2 Cor. xii. 1).— Φιανεύων: making signs all he could do; he could not bless them, e.g., if that was part of his duty for the day, or explain his absence (here only).
Vv. 23-25. Returns home. The week of service over, Zechariah went back to his own house.—Aetrovpyias : in Biblical ‘Greek used in reference to priestly ser- vice ; elsewhere of public service rendered by a citizen at his own expense or of any sort of service.—Ver. 24. περιέκρυβεν: hid herself entirely (περὶ), here only; €xpuBov: alate form of 2nd aorist. Why, not said, nor whether her husband told her what had happened to him.—pijvas πέντε; after which another remarkable
event happened. Whether she appeared openly thereafter is not indicated. Possibly not (J. Weiss).—étetSev: here and in Acts iv. 29 = took care, the object being ἀφελεῖν τὸ Sv. p. = to τε- move my reproach: keenly felt by a Jewish woman, ἐν is understood before ats (Bornemann, Scholia).
Vv. 26-38. The announcement to Mary.—Ver. 26. Ναζαρέτ: the original home of Joseph and Mary, not merely the adopted home as we might infer from Mt. ii. 23.—Ver. 27. ἐξ οἴκου Δ.: Mary, Joseph, or both? Impossible to be sure, though the repetition of παρθένου in next clause (instead of αὐτῆς) favours the reference to Joseph.— Ver. 28. yatpe, κεχαριτωµένη: ave plena gratid, Vulg., on which Farrar (ο. G. T.) comments : “ not gratia plena, but gratia cumulata’’; much graced or favoured by God.—yaptréw is Hellenistic, and is found, besides here, only in Eph. i. 6 in N. T.—é Κύριος μετὰ cov, the Lord (Jehovah) zs or be with thee, ἐστί or ἔστω understood ; the two renderings come practically to the same thing.— Ver. 20. διεταράχθη: assuming that ιδοῦσα (T.R.) is no part of the true text, Godet thinks that Mary saw nothing,
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ΚΑΤΑ AOYKAN id εὐλογημένη σὺ ἐν yuvacgiv.”} 29. Ἡ δὲ ἰδοῦσα διεταράχθη ἐπὶ. τῷ λόγῳ αὐτοῦ,” καὶ διελογίζετο ποταπὸς ein ὁ ἁἀσπασμὸς οὗτος. 30. Καὶ εἶπεν 6 ἄγγελος αὐτῇ, “Mh φοβοῦ, Μαριάμ: εὗρες yap: χάριν παρὰ τῷ Ged. 31. καὶ ἰδού, συλλήψῃη ἐν γαστρί, καὶ τέξῃ υἱόν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν. 32. οὗτός ἔσται µέγας, καὶ υἱὸς ὑψίστου κληθήσεται' καὶ δώσει αὐτῷ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τὸν θρόνον Δαβὶδ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, 33. καὶ βασιλεύσει ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον ᾿Ιακὼβ eis τοὺς αἰῶνας, καὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔσται τέλος. 34. Εἶπε δὲ Μαριὰμ πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον, “Mas ἔσται τοῦτο, ἐπεὶ. ἄνδρα οὐ γινώσκω;” 35. Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ἄγγελος εἶπεν αὐτῇ, ««Πνεῦμα Άγιον ἐπελεύσεται ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ δύναμµις ὑψίστου ἐπισκιάσει.