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43. ᾽Αποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ 1 Σίµων εἶπεν, ''"Ὑπολαμβάνω ὅτι ᾧ τὸ πλεῖον ο Acts il. 15 éxapicato.” ‘O δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, ''᾿Ορθῶς ἔκρινας. 44. Καὶ στραφεὶς πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα, τῷ Σίµωνι ἔφη, “ Βλέπεις ταύτην τὴν γυναῖκα; εἰσῆλθόν σου εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν, ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας µου 3 οὐκ ἔδωκας. att δὲ τοῖς δάκρυσιν ἔβρεξέ µου τοὺς πόδας, καὶ ταῖς θριξὶ τῆς κεφαλῆςδ αὐτῆς ἐξέμαδε. 45. Φίλημά por οὐκ ἔδωκας: αὕτη δέ, dh ἧς εἰσῆλθον, οὐ διέλιπεέ καταφιλοῦσά µου τοὺς, πόδας. 46. ἐλαίῳ τὴν κεφαλήν µου οὐκ ἤλειψας' αὕτη δὲ µύρῳ ἤλειψέ µου τοὺς πόδας. 47. οὗ χάριν, λέγω σοι, ἀφέωνται ai ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς ὃ ai πολλαί, ὅτι ἠγάπησε πολύ: ᾧ δὲ ὀλίγον
a 2' ἀφίεται, ὀλίγον ἀγαπᾷ.” ς ιά 2 ἁμαρτίαι.
, » “Tis οὗτός ἐστιν ὃς καὶ ἁμαρτίας ἀφίησιν ;
48. Εἶπε δὲ αὐτῇ, ''᾿᾽Αϕφέωνταί σου αἱ
49. Καὶ ἤρξαντο of συνανακείµενοι λέγειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς,
5ο. Εἶπε δὲ πρὸς
A 35 τὴν γυναῖκα, ““H πίστις σου σέσωκέ σε" πορεύου εἰς εἰρήνην.
1 Omit δε BD, and ο NBLE.
2 pov before επι τ. π. in SQLE (Tisch., W.H., marg.).
(W.H. text).
μοι επι ποδας in B
2 Omit της κεφ. NABDILE vet. Lat. vulg. cop. al. (Tisch., W.H.). 4διελιπε in BD (W.H. text); διελειπεν in SYAILAE al. (Tisch., W.H., marg.)
—a correction of style.
ὅμον τ. π. in δὴ al., 1, 13, 69 al. (Tisch. = T.R.).
τ. π. pov in BLE (W.H.).
° avtys before at apap. in $¥, etc. (Tisch.). T.R. = BLE al. mul. (W.H.).
whereby Simon would be thrown off his guard: no suspicion of a personal reference.—Ver. 42. éyaploaro: a warmer word than ἀφιέναι, welcome to Lk. as containing the idea of grace. ---ὀρθῶς ἔκρινας, like the πάνυ ὀρθῶς of Socrates, but without his irony.—Vv. 44-46. στραφεὶς: Jesus looks at the woman now for the first time, and asks His host to look at her, the despised one, that he may learn a lesson from her, by a contrast to be drawn between her behaviour and his own in application of the parable. A sharply marked antithesis runs through the description.—tdwp --δάκρυσιν; Φίλημα---καταφιλοῦσα;: ἐλαίῳ (common oil), pipe (precious oint- ment); κεφαλήν-- πόδας. There is a kind of poetic rhythm in the words, as is apt to be the case when men speak under deep emotion.—Ver. 47. οὗ χάριν, wherefore, introducing Christ’s theory of the woman’s extraordinary behaviour as opposed to Simon’s un- generous suspicions.—A¢yw σοι, I tell you, with emphasis ; what Jesus firmly be- lieves and what Simon very much needs to be told.—adéwvrat (Doric perf. pas.) at ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς, forgiven are her sins:
tion implied in πολλαί;
{.ε., it is a case, not of a courtesan acting in character, as you have been thinking, but of a penitent who has come through me to the knowledge that even such as she can be forgiven. That is the meaning of this extraordinary demon- stration of passionate affection.—at πολλαί, the many, a sort of afterthought : many sins, a great sinner, you think, and so I also can see from her behaviour in this chamber, which manifests intense love, whence I infer that she is conscious of much forgiveness and of much need to be forgiven.—ér. ἠγάπησεν πολύ: ὅτι introduces the ground of the asser- many sins inferred from much love ; the underlying principle: much forgiven, much love, which is here applied backwards, because Simon, while believing in the woman’s great sin, did not believe in her penitence. The foregoing interpre- tation is now adopted by most com. mentators. The old dispute between Protestants and Catholics, based on this text, as to the ground of pardon is now pretty much out of date.—«} δὲ ὀλίγον, etc. : this is the other side of the truth, as it applied to Simon: little (conscious)
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