ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ. 25. ἐπ᾽ ἀληθείας δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, πολλαὶ χῆραι ἦσαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Ἡλίου ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ, ὅτε ἐκλείσθη ὁ οὐρανὸς ἐπὶ 1 ἔτη τρία καὶ µῆνας ἕξ, ὡς ἐγένετο λιμὸς µέγας ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν: 46. καὶ πρὸς οὐδεμίαν αὐτῶν ἐπέμφθη ἩἨλίας, εἰ μὴ εἰς Σάρεπτα τῆς Σιδῶνος2 πρὸς γυναῖκα χήραν. 27. καὶ πολλοὶ λεπροὶ ἦσαν ἐπὶ ἘἙλισσαίου τοῦ προφήτου ἐν τῷ “lopand®- καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτῶν ἐκαθαρίσθη, εἰ μὴ Νεεμὰν ὁ Σύρος. 28. Καὶ ἐπλήσ- θησαν πάντες θυμοῦ ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ, ἀκούοντες ταῦτα, 29. καὶ ἀναστάντες ἐξέβαλον αὐτὸν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν ἕως τῆς * ὀφρύος τοῦ ὅρους, ἐφ᾽ οὗ ἡ πόλις αὐτῶν ᾠκοδόμητοιὁ εἰς τὸ ὅ
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31. ΚΑΙ κατῆλθεν εἲς Καπερναοὺμ πόλιν τῆς Γαλιλαίας: καὶ ἦν
1 emt, found in ΔΟΙ:Δ al. (Tisch.), is wanting in BD (W.H. text, επι marg.).
2 Σιδωνιας in SBCDL 1, 13, 69, 131 al.
3 ev τω lo. before επι EX. in SBCDL 1,
4 Omit της NRABCLA al.
13, 33, 69 al.
5 wkoSopyto αυτων in $$BDL 33, altered into the more usual order in Τ.Β. 6 ωστε for εις το in NBDL 33 (Tisch., W.H.).
troducing another proverb given in Mt. and Mk. (xiii. 57, vi. 4) inslightly varied form.—Sexrés (vide ver. 19, also Acts x. 35), acceptable, a Pauline word (2 Cor. vi. 2, Phil. iv. 18).—Ver. 25. This verse begins, like ver. 24, with a solemn asse- veration. It contains the proper answer to νετ. 23. It has been suggested (J. Weiss) that vv. 22 and 24 have been in- terpolated from Mk. vi. 1-6 in the source Lk. here used.—érn τρία κ. p. ἕξ, three years and six months. The reference is to 1 Kings xvii. 1, xviii. 1, where three years are mentioned. The recurrence of the same number, three and a half years, in James v. 17 seems to point to a traditional estimate of the period of drought, three and a half, the half of seven, the number symbolic of misfortune (Daniel xii. 7).—Ver. 26. Zdpewra, a village lying between Tyre and Sidon = modern Surafend.—Ver. 27. 6 Σύρος. Naaman and the widow of Sarepta both Gentiles: these references savouring of universalism were welcome to Lk., but there is no reason to suspect that he put them into Christ’s mouth. Jesus might have so spoken (vide Mt. viii. 11).— Vv. 28-29. Unsympathetic from the first, the Nazareans, stung by these O. T. references, become indignant. Pagans, not to speak of Capernaum people, better than we: away with Him !
out of the synagogue, nay, out of the town (ἔξω τῆς wodews).—ews ὀφρύος τ. ὅ., etc., to the eyebrow (supercilium, here only in N. T.) of the hill on which the city was built, implying an elevated point but not necessarily the highest ridge. Kypke remarks: ‘‘non summum montis cacumen, sed minor aliquis tumulus sive clivus intelligitur, qui cum monte cohaeret, metaphora a superciliis ocu- lorum desumta, quae in fronte quidem eminent, ipso tamen vertice inferiora sunt”. Nazareth now lies in a cup, built close up to the hill surrounding. Perhaps then it went further up.—déove (eis τὸ, T.R.) with infinitive indicating intention and tendency, happily not result.—Ver. 30. αὐτὸς δὲ, but He, emphatic, suggesting a contrast: they infuriated, He calm and self-possessed. ---διελθὼν: no miracle intended, but only the marvel of the power always exerted by a tranquil spirit and firm will over human passions.
Vv. 31-37. In Capernaum ; the de- moniac (Mk. i. 21-28).---κατῆλθεν els Κ. He went down from Nasareth, not from heaven, as suggested in Marcion’s Gos- pel, which began here: ‘‘ Anno quinto- decimo principatus Tiberiani Deum descendisse in civitatem Galilaeae Capharnaum,” Tertull. ο. Marc. iv. 7.— πόλιν τ. Γ.: circumstantially described
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διδάσκων αὐτοὺς ἐν τοῖς σάββασι. διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐν ἐξουσίᾳ ἦν & λόγος αὐτοῦ.