Vv. 47, 48. Degrees of guilt and punishment, in Lk. only, and serving as an apology for the severity of the punish- ment as described in ver. 46. That punishment presupposes anger. The statement now made is to the effect: penalty inflicted not as passion dictates
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562 KATA AOYKAN XII, αὐτοῦ, δαρήσεται πολλάς: 48. ὁ δὲ ph γνούς, moujoas δὲ ἄξια πληγῶν, δαρήσεται ὀλίγας. παντὶ δὲ ᾧ ἐδόθη πολύ, πολὺ [ητηθή- σεται wap αὐτοῦ: καὶ ᾧ παρέθεντο πολύ, περισσότερον αἰτήσουσιν αὐτόν. 49. Mp ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰς] τὴν γῆν, καὶ τί θέλω εἰ ἤδη
b Acts »ἀνήφθη; 50. βάπτισμα δὲ ἔχω βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ πῶς συνέχοµαι
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Jas. iii. 5. ἕως 06? τελεσθῇ; 51. δοκεῖτε ὅτι εἰρήνην παρεγενόµην δοῦναι ἐν
a ~ Se / δν 7 AN ” a
ε here only TH Υῆ; οὐχί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀλλ᾽ F 52. ἔσονται γὰρ in N. 3 9 A a > ” κ.α 8 , - 9 4 8 , ‘ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν πέντε ἐν οἴκῳ ἑνὶ ὃ διαµεμερισμένοι, τρεῖς ἐπὶ δυσί, καὶ
δύο ἐπὶ τρισί.
Σδιαμερισμόν.
53. διαµερισθήσεται ΄ πατὴρ ἐφ᾽ vid, καὶ vids ἐπὶ πατρί' µήτηρ ἐπὶ θυγατρί, καὶ θυγάτηρ ἐπὶ µητρίδ: πενθερά ἐπ
τὴν νύµφην αὐτῆς, καὶ νύμφη ἐπὶ τὴν πενθερὰν αὐτῆς." ©
1 επι in ΜΑΒΙ, (εις in Τ). 3 eve οικω in SBDL.
2 ews οτου in NABDL. 4 διαµερισθησονται in SBDL minuse,
> sg EDL minusc, have θνγατερα, µητερα with or without the article.
§ Omit αντης NBDL.
but as principle demands.—é6 δοῦλος 6 γνοὺς, etc.: describes the case of a servant who knows the master’s will but does not do it (μηδὲ ποιήσας), nay, does not even intend or try to do it (μὴ ἑτοιμάσας), deliberately, audaciously πεσ[σεπε.-- δαρήσεται πολλάς (πληγάς): many stripes justly his portion.—Ver. 48. 6 δὲ μὴ γνοὺς: the opposite case is that of one who does not know. What he would do if he did know is another question ; but it is not to be gratuitously supposed that he would neglect his duty utterly, like the other, though he does commit minor faults. He is a lower servant in the house to whom the master gave no particular instructions on leav- ing, therefore without special sense of responsibility during his absence, and apt like the average servant to take liberties when the master is away from home.—travrti δὲ ᾧ ἐδόθη, etc. : a general maxn further explaining the principle regulating penalty or responsibility (cf. Mt. xxv. 15 Π.).
κ΄ Vv. 49-53. Not peace but division (Με. κ. 34-36). This section is intro- duced by no connecting particle. Yet there is a certain affinity of thought. Strict fidelity demanded under penalties, but fidelity not easy; times of fierce trial and conflict awaiting you. I fore- warn you, that ye may be forearmed.— Ver. 49. wtp: the fire of a new faith, or religion, a burning enthusiasm in believers, creating fierce antagonism in unbelievers ; deplorable but inevitable.— βαλεῖν, used by Mt. in reference to peace and war, where Lk. has Sotvat.—ri θέλω
el, etc., how much I wish it were already kindled; τί = ὡς and ei after θέλω to express the object of the wish, as in Sirach xxiii. 14 (θελήσεις εἰ μὴ ἐγεννήθης, you will wish you had not been born),— Ver. 5ο. βάπτισμα: before the fire can be effectually kindled there must come for the kindler His own baptism of blood, of which therefore Jesus naturally speaks here with emotion.—és συνέχοµαι, how am I pressed on every side, either with fervent desire (Euthy., Theophy., De Wette, Schanz, etc.), or with fear, shrinking from the cup (Meyer, J. Weiss, Holtzmann, Hahn).—Ver. 51. διαµερισμόν : instead of Mt.’s µάχαιραν, an abstract prosaic term for a concreté pictorial one ; exactly descriptive of the fact, however, and avoiding possible misapprehension as to Christ’s aim = Jesus not a patron of war.—Ver. 52. τρεῖς ἐπὶ δυσὶν, etc.: three against two and two against three; five in all, not six though three pairs are mentioned, mother and mother-in-law (µήτηρ and πενθερὰ) being the same person. This way of putting it is doubtless due to Lk. —émi with dative = contra, only here in N.T.; κατὰ with genitive in Mt.