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XIII. 1. ΠΑΡΗΣΑΝ δέ τινες ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ καιρῷ ἀπαγγέλλαντες αὐτῷ περὶ τῶν Γαλιλαίων, ὢν τὸ αἷμα Πιλάτος ἔμιξε μετὰ τῶν
θυσιῶν αὐτῶν.
2. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ "Ingots! εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, “ Δοκεῖτε,
ὅτι οἳ Γαλιλαῖοι οὗτοι ἁμαρτωλοὶ παρὰ πάντας τοὺς Γαλιλαίους
ἐγένοντο, ὅτι τοιαῦτα ” πεπόνθασιν;
3. οὐχί, λέγω ὑμῖν: ἀλλ᾽ ἐὰν
μὴ µετανοῆτε, Πάντες ὡσαύτως ὃ ἀπολεῖσθε. 4. ἢ ἐκεῖνοι ot δέκα wat’ ὀκτώ, ἐφ᾽ οὓς ἔπεσεν 6 πύργος ἐν' τῷ Σιλωάμ, καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτούς, δοκεῖτε, ὅτι οὗτοι ὅ ὀφειλέται ἐγένοντο παρὰ πάντας ἀνθρώ-
mous τοὺς κατοικοῦντας év® Ἱερουσαλήμ ;
] ΣΜΕΙ,Τ verss. omit ο |.
8 opotes in NBDLT 1, 13, 33, 69 al. § avrot in NABKLT 33, 69 al.
its report of the teaching of Christ as if the end were still a great way off.
Vv. 1-5. The Galilean tragedy, peculiar to Lk., as is the greater part of what follows, on to xviii. 14.—Ver. 1. παρῆσαν δέ, etc.: The introduction to the gruesome story naturally implies.a temporal connection between what follows and what goes before: i.e., some present when Jesus spoke as reported in xii. 54-59 took occasion to tell Him this piece of recent news, recalled to their minds by what He had said about judg- ment and how to avertit. There is no good reason to suppose that the connec- tion is merely topical, and that the preface is simply a literary device of Lk. τῶν Γαλ.: the article implies that the story was current.—dév τὸ aipa, etc.: So the story was told among the horrified people: the blood of the poor Galilean victims ruthlessly shed by Pilate while they were in the very act of offering sacrifice. Perfectly credible in those times under such a ruler, and in reference to such victims, Galileans, free in spirit, restive under the Roman yoke. Similar incidents in Josephus, though not this precise occurrence.—Ver. 2. ἀποκριθεὶς: Jesus answered to an implied question. Those who told the story expected Him to make some remarks on it; not such doubtless as He did make.—Soxeire, think ye; probably that was just what they did think. The fate of the Galileans awakened superstitious horror prone to impute to the victims special criminality. ---παρὰ πάντας τ. Γ., in comparison with all Galileans. To make the point more vivid the victims are compared with men of their own province, dis- position, and temptations.—éyévovro, became, were shown to Ῥε.-- πεπόνθασι,
5. οὐχί, λέγω ὑμῖν:
2 ταντα in NBDL. 6 Omit και BDL. 6 BDLX al. omit ev.
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have suffered, an irrevocable fact.—Ver. 3. οὐχί, an emphatic “no,” followed by a solemn “I say to you”. The prophetic mood is on the speaker. He reads in the fate of the few the coming doom of the whole nation.—époiws, in a similar way. ὡσαύτως, the reading in T.R., is stronger =in the same way. Jesus expresses Himself with greater intensity as He proceeds = ye shall perish likewise ; nay, in the same way (ver. 5, ὡσαύτως), your towers and temples falling about your ears.—Ver. 4. Jesus refers to another tragic occurrence, suggesting that He was acquainted with both. His ears were open to all current news, and His mind prompt to point the moral. The fact stated, otherwise unknown to us.— ὀφειλέται, word changed, in meaning the same as ἁμαρτωλοὶ, moral debtors pay- ing their debt in that dismal way.
he utterances of Jesus on this occasion do not bear on the general question: how far may lot be viewed as an index of character ? which was not then before His mind. He assumed that the sufferers in the two catastrophes were sinners and even great sinners, 5ο acquiescing in the popular view, because He wanted to point a lesson for the whole nation which He regarded as fast ripening for judgment. From the say- ing in the Teaching on the Hill con- cerning the Father in Heaven giving sunshine and rain to evil and good alike, it is evident that He had risen not only above popular current opinion, but even above the O.T. view as to the connec- tion between physical and moral good andevil. That saying implies that there is a large sphere of Divine action within which moral distinctions among men are overlooked, that good may come to bad