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It,
‘Ayio καὶ wupt> 17. οὗ τὸ πτύον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ διακαθαριεῖ ! τὴν ἅλωνα αὐτοῦ καὶ συνάξει] τὸν σῖτον eis τὴν ἀποθήκην αὐτοῦ,
τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.” ἕτερα παρακαλῶν εὐηγγελίζετο τὸν λαόν.
18. Πολλὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ 19. ‘O δὲ ᾿Ἡρώδης 6
τετράρχης, ἐλεγχόμενος Gm αὐτοῦ περὶ Ἡρωδιάδος τῆς γυναικὸς Φιλίππου 3 τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ περὶ πάντων ὧν ἐποίησε πονηρῶν
g Acta zxvi. 6 Ἠρώδης, 20. προσέθηκε καὶ τοῦτο ἐπὶ πᾶσι, καὶ ὃ 5 κατέκλεισε τὸν
Ἰωάννην ἐν τῇ * φυλακῇ.
21. Ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν τῷ βαπτισθῆναι ἅπαντα τὸν λαόν, καὶ ᾿Ιησοῦ βαπτισθέντος καὶ προσευχοµένου, ἀνεῳχθῆναι τὸν οὐρανόν, 22. καὶ a x a“ ασ a 3/: . 5 x καταβῆναι τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ "Άγιον σωματικῷ εἴδει ὡσεὶ ὃ περιστερὰν ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν, καὶ φωνὴν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ γενέσθαι, λέγουσαν,ὸ “ Ed εἶ ὁ vids
µου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν σοὶ ηὐδόκησα.”
23. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἦν 6” ᾿Ιησοῦς.
1 For και Stax. (from Mt.) ΜΒ have διακαθαραι, also συναγαγειν for συναξει.
2 Omit Φιλιππου WBDLAE al. 4 Omit ry NBDLE.
6 Omit Aey. (expletive) with BDL verss.
It is, however, not impossible that Lk. read an evangelic sense into John’s
words.
Vv. 18-20. Close of the Baptist’s ministry and life. Lk. gives here all he means to say about John, condensing into a single sentence the full narratives of Mt. and Mk. as to his end.—Ver. 18. πολλὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἕτερα, “ many things, too, different from these” (Farrar, who refers to John i. 29, 34, iii. 27-36, as illus- trating the*kind of utterances meant). The εὐηγγελίζετο following seems to justify emphasising €repa, as pointing to a more evangelic type of utterance than those about the axe and the fan, and the wrath to come. But it may be ques- tioned whether by such a representation the real John of history is not to a cer- tain extent unconsciously idealised and, Christianised.—peév οὖν: the οὖν may be taken as summarising and concluding the narrative about John and μὲν as answering to δὲ in ver. 19 = John was carrying on a useful evangelic ministry, but it was cut short; or μενοῦν may be taken as one word, emphasising πολλὰ καὶ ἕτερα, and preparing for transition to what follows (Hahn).—Ver. το. Ἠρώδης: the tetrarch named in νετ. 1.— περὶ πάντων, implying that John’s re- buke was not confined to the sin with Herodias. Probably not, but it was what John said on that score that cost him his head.—Ver. 20. ἐπὶ maou, added this also to all his misdeeds, and
5 Omit this και (RBDE b, 6 (Tisch., W.H.).
5 ws in BDL 33. TASBL 33 omit ο.
above all the crowning iniquity, and yet Lk. forbears to mention the damning sin of Herod, the beheading of the Baptist, contenting himself with noting the im- prisonment. He either assumes know- ledge of the horrid tale, or shrinks from it as too gruesome.—katékAeroe: in- stead of the infinitive; the paratactic style savours of Hebrew, and suggests a Hebrew source (Godet).
Vv. 21-22. The baptism of Fesus (Mt. iii. 13-17, Mk. i. 9-11).—év τῷ βαπτισ- θῆναι: the aorist ought to imply that the bulk of the people had already been baptised before Jesus appeared on the scene, 1.ε., that John’s ministry was draw- ing to its close (so De Wette; but vide Burton, M. and T., p. 51, § 109, on the effect of ἐν).---καὶ Ἰ. βαπτισθέντος: so Lk. refers to the baptism of Jesus, in a parti- cipial clause, his aim not to report the fact, but what happened after it. On the different ways in which the synoptists deal with this incident, vide on Mt.— προσευχοµένου: peculiar to Lk., who makes Jesus pray at all crises of His career; here specially noteworthy in connection with the theophany follow- ing: Jesus in a state of mind answering to the preternatural phenomena; sub- jective and objective corresponding.— σωματικῷ εἴδει, in bodily form, peculiar to Lk., and transforming a vision into an external event.—Zv el: the voice, as in Mk., addressed to Jesus, and in the same terms.