Vv. 45-52. Castigation of the scribes present ; severe, but justified by having been invited.— Ver. 45. τις τῶν νομικῶν : a professional man, the Pharisees being laymen; the two classes kindred in spirit, hence the lawyer who speaks felt hit.—Ver. 46. Jesus fearlessly proceeds to say what He thinks of the class.— καὶ ὑμῖν, yes! to you lawyers also woes. Three are specified: heavy burdens (Mt.
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48. dpa καὶ συνευδοκεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν: ὅτι
προφητῶν, οἱδὲ 1 πατέρες ὑμῶν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς. μαρτυρεῖτε 2 αὐτοὶ μὲν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς, ὑμεῖς δὲ οἰκοδομεῖτε αὐτῶν τὰ μνημεῖα. 49. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἡ σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ εἶπεν, ᾽Αποστελῶ εἰς αὐτοὺς προφήτας καὶ ἀποστόλους, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀποκτενοῦσι καὶ ἐκδιώξ- ουσιν": 5ο. ἵνα ἐκζητηθῇ τὸ αἷμα πάντων τῶν προφητῶν τὸ ἐκχυνόμενον ὃ ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης, 51. ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος ᾿Αβελ ἕως τοῦ αἵματος Ζαχαρίου τοῦ. ἀπολομένου μεταξὺ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου καὶ τοῦ οἴκου: ναί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐκζητηθήσεται ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης. ὅτι ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως: αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθετε, καὶ τοὺς
52. Odat ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς,
534. Λέγοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα πρὸς > ‘.~6 2» c a X ς a 5 é έ αὐτούς, ἤρξαντο οἱ γραμματεῖς καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι δεινῶς ἐνέχειν,
εἰσερχομένους exw toate.” Ρχομ
καὶ ἀποστοματίζειν αὐτὸν περὶ πλειόνων, 54. ἐνεδρεύοντες αὐτόν, καὶ ζητοῦντες Ἰ θηρεῦσαί τι ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ, ἵνα κατηγορή-
5 a8 σωσιν αυτου.
1 For οι δε SC have και οι (Tisch.).
Vide below.
? For µαρτυρειτε(ΑΟΡΧ al. £1.) ΝΕΤ, aeth. Orig. have µαρτυρες core.
3 BDL codd. vet. Lat. omit avtev τα µνηµεια.
* διωξουσιν in SBCLX al. (W.H.). 6 For λεγοντος .. .
Vide below.
δεκκεχυμενον in B 33, 69 (W.H. text). προς αυτους, found in the Western type of text, NBCL 33
have κακειθεν εξελθοντος αυτου: two quite distinct prefaces to the new section. Tisch., W.H., prefer that of B (2) to that of D (1).
7 NBL 1, 118, 131 al. omit και ζητουντες (Tisch., W.H.). S¥X omit also αυτον
after eveSpevovres (Tisch.). 5 ΑΝ ΒΙ, cop. aeth. omit ινα .
xxiil. 3), tombs of the prophets (Mt. xxiii. 20-31), key of knowledge (Mt. xxiii. 14). —doprifere (with two accusatives only in N.T.), ye lade men with unbearable burdens.—poowavete, ye touch, here only in N.T.—Ver. 47. καὶ of πατέρες v., and your fathers. This reading of SSC is to be preferred on internal grounds to οἱ δὲ, as implying that the two acts were not contrasted but kindred = they killed, you build, worthy sons of such fathers.—Ver. 48 points the moral.— ἄρα: perhaps with Schleiermacher we should write ρα, taking what follows as a question.—oikodopetre, ye build, absolutely (without object, vide note 3 above). Tomb-building in honour of dead prophets and killing of living prophets have one root: stupid superstitious rever- ence for the established order.—Ver. 40. ἡ σοφία τ. Θ.: vide notes on Mt. xxiii. 34.---ἀποστόλους, apostles, instead of wise men and scribes in Με.---ἐκδιώξου- σιν, they shall drive out (of the land), in
. . αντον (a gloss imitating Mt. xii. το).
place of Με.’ oravpdocete.—Ver. 5ο. ἐκζητηθῇῃ, “a Hellenistic verb used in the sense of the Latin exquiro,” Farrar (6. G. T.).—Ver. 51. τοῦ ἀπολομένου who perished, in place of the harsher whom ye slew of Mt.—rod οἴκου = τοῦ ναοῦ in Mt., the temple.—Ver. 52. Final woe on the lawyers, a kind of anti- climax. Cf. Mt., where the pathetic apostrophe to Jerusalem follows and concludes the discourse.—riv κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως, the key which is knowledge (genitive of apposition) admitting to the Kingdom of God. Many take it = the key to knowledge.
Ver. 53. The foregoing discourse, though toned down as compared with Mt., was more than the hearers could stand. The result is a more hostile attitude towards the free-spoken Prophet than the classes concerned have yet shown, at least in the narrative of Lk. They began δεινῶς ἐνέχειν, to be sorely nettled at Him (cf. Mk. vi. 1ο). Euthy.