23—33.
καὶ Lyon.”
, “Kai τίς ἐστί µου πλησίον ;”
ἑ,"Ανθρωπός τις κατέβαινεν ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ εἰς Ἱεριχώ, καὶ λησταῖς ἀπεριέπεσεν, ot καὶ ἐκδύσαντες αὐτόν, καὶ πληγὰς ἐπιθέντες ἀπῆλθον,
ἀφέντες ἡμιθανῆ τυγχάνοντα.ὃ
κατέβαινεν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτὸν * ἀντιπαρῆλθεν.
30. 'Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ 3 ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν, © it
543
29. Ὁ δὲ θέλων δικαιοῦν 1 ἑαυτὸν εἶπε πρὸς τὸν "Inoody,
ς here only
i N.T.
in sense of replying.
d Acts xxvii.
41. Jas. i.
41. κατὰ ᾿συγκυρίαν δὲ ἱερεύς tis. 2:
¢ here only in N.T. 32: f here (bis)
ς / ‘ 3 x 4 > \ A 398 ῃ ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Λευΐτης, γενόμενος ά κατὰ τὸν τόπον, ἐλθὼν καὶ ἰδὼν oan
ἀντιπαρῆλθε.
1 δικαιωσαι in SBCDLX=, 3 Omit τνγχ. NBDLE 1, 33 al.
see it exemplified in the following parable: priest and Levite religious but inhuman. In Lk.’s time the conception of religion and morality as one and in- separable had become a_ Christian commonplace, and he might have been unable to realise that there was a time when men thought otherwise, and so without any sense of incongruity made the lawyer answer as he does. But, on the other hand, it has to be borne in mind that even in our Lord’s time there were some in the legal schools who em- phasised the ethical, and Mk. makes the scribe (xii. 32, 33) one of this type.— ἀγαπήσεις, etc.: Deut. vi. 5 is here given, as in Mk. xii. 31, with a fourfold analysis of the inner man: heart, soul, strength, mind.—Ver. 29. δικαιῶσαι é., to keep up his character as a righteous man, concerned in all things to do his duty. Hence his desire for a definition of ‘“‘ neighbour,” which was an elastic term, Whether Lk. thinks of him as guilty of evasion and chicanery is doubt- ful. It was not his way to put the worst construction on the conduct even of scribes and Pharisees. —mAyotoy, with- out article, is properly an adverb = who is near me? But the meaning is the same as if 6 had been there.
Vv. 30-37. The story of the good Samaritan, commonly called a parable, but really not such in the strict sense of natural things used as vehicle of spiritual truth ; an example rather than a symbol ; the first of several ‘‘ parables ” of this sort in Lk.—dv@pemds τις: probably a Jew, but intentionally not so called, simply a human being, so at once striking the keynote of universal ethics.—xaréBawvey, was descending; it was a descent in- deed.—. περιέπεσεν, ‘fell among” robbers, A. and R. VV.; better perhaps *‘feil in with,” encountered, so Field (Οἱ. Nor.). The verb is often joined
33. Σαμαρείτης δέ τις ὁδεύων ἦλθε kat αὐτόν, καὶ Wisd.
XVi. 1Ο,
2 Omit δε NBC. * Omit γεν BLXE 1, 38, 118.
with a noun singular (περιέπεσε χειμῶνι). Raphel cites from Polybius an instance in which robbers ‘ fall in with” the party robbed: τούτους (legatos) λῃσταί τινες περιπεσόντες ἐν TH πελάγει διέφ- θειραν = (Reliquiae, lib. xxiv. ττ).--- ἡμιθανῆ, half dead, semivivo relicto, Vulgate, here only in N. T.; he will soon be whole dead unless some one come to his help: cannot help himself or move from the spot.—Ver. 31. κατὰ συγκυρίαν (συγκυρία, from συν- kupéw), rare, late Greek = κατὰ συντυχίαν (Hesychius, συγκυρία, συντνυχία), by chance; the probabilities against succour being at hand just when sorely wanted: still more improbable that three possi- bilities of succour should meet just there and then. But the supposition, duly apologised for, is allowable, as the story must go on.—iepevs : Schanz infers from κατὰ ovy. that Jericho was nota sacer- dotal city, as, since Lightfoot, has been usually taken for granted. But the phrase has its full meaning inde- pendently of this inference, vide above.— ἀντιπαρῆλθεν, variously rendered either = passed by simply, or = passed the Opposite way (going up), Grotius; or passed with the wounded man in full view, staring him in the face, a sight fit to awaken compassion in any one (Hahn) ; or passed by on the other side of the road.—Ver. 32. ὅμοίως Λευίτης ἀντιπ., likewise a Levite . . . passed by, the repetition of ἀντιπαρῆλθεν has a thetorical monotony suggestive of the idea: such the way of the world—to pass by, “in nine cases out of ten that is what you may expect” (The Parabolic Teaching of Christ, p. 348).—Ver. 33. Σαμαρείτης, a Samaritan: will he a Gorton: pass by? No, he does not, that the surprise and the point of the story. The unexpected happens.—éSevuv, hex> only in N. T., making a journey, pre-