να ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ ἀντικαλέσωσι,} καὶ γένηταί σοι * ἀνταπόδομα.ϊ δοχήν,’ κάλει πτωχούς, ἀναπήρους, χωλούς, τυφλούς: 14. καὶ µακάριος Eon: ὅτι οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἀνταποδοῦναί σοι: ἀνταποδοθήσεται γάρ σοι ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει τῶν δικαίων.”
15. ᾽᾿Ακούσας δέ τις τῶν συνανακειµένων ταῦτα εἶπεν αὐτῷ, «Μακάριος, ὃς ὃ φάγεται ἄρτον ἐν τῇ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ. 16. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, ''"Ανθρωπός τις ἐποίησε΄ δεῖπνον µέγα, καὶ ἐκάλεσε πολλούς: 17. καὶ ἀπέστειλε τὸν δοῦλον αὐτοῦ τῇ ὥρα τοῦ δείπνου εἰπεῖν τοῖς κεκλημένοι», Ἔρχεσθε, ὅτι ἤδη ἔτοιμά ἐστιδ πάντα.δ 18. Καὶ ἤρξαντο ἀπὸ μιᾶς παραιτεῖσθαι πάντες. 6 πρῶτος εἶπεν αὐτῷ, “Aypov ἠγόρασα, καὶ ἔχω ἀνάγκην ἐξελθεῖν καὶ ὃ ἰδεῖν αὐτόν - ἐρωτῶ σε, EXE µε παρῃτηµένον. 19. καὶ ἕτερος εἶπε, Ζεύγη βοῶν ἠγόρασα πέντε, καὶ πορεύομαι δοκιµάσαι αὖτά: ἐρωτῶ σε, ἔχε με
13. ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ποιῇς « Rom. zi.9
1 σε after αντικαλ. in ΜΝΒΡΙ.Ε 1, 69 al., and σοι after ανταπ.
2 ΜΒ have δοχην ποιης. ἔοστις in NaBLPRX 1, 13, 69 al.
4 εποιει in NBR 1.
δεισι in S{LR (Tisch., W.H., marg.); εστι (T.R.) in BDX (W.H. text).
® Omit παντα SBLR.
7 παντες παραι. in S$BDLRX 1 verss,
5 For εξελθειν και SSBDL have simply εξελθων.
only because they are rich, or, more generally, socially Ἱπιροτίαπε.---μήποτε, lest, presenting return invitations (ἄντι- καλεῖν, here only in N.T.) as an object of dread, a fear unknown to the world. (Hic metus mundo ignotus, Bengel.)— Ver. 13. δοχῆν, the same word used by Lk. in reference to the feast in Levi’s house, which was a gathering of the sort here recommended by Jesus.— µακάριος, here and always denoting rare virtue and felicity = the pleasure of doing a kindness not to be repaid, except at the resurrection of the just, or by the joy that every really beneficent action brings ποτυ.---τῶν δικαίων: in specifying the righteous as the subjects of the resurrection the Speaker has no intention of indicating an opinion as to the un- righteous: whether they rise at all, or when. .
Vv. 15-24. The great feast (cf. Mt. xxii. I-14), very naturally introduced by the pious reflection of a guest whose religious sentiment had been touched by the allusion to the resurrection-felicity of the just. Like many other pious observations of the conventional type it did not amount to much, and was no guarantee of genuine godliness in the speaker. The parable expresses this truth in concrete form, setting forth that many care less for the Kingdom of God
and its blessings than they seem to care, and teaching that these will be offered to those who do care indeed.
Vv. 16-20. ἐκάλεσεν: it was a great feast and many were asked, with a long invitation.—Ver. 17. εἰπεῖν τοῖς κεκλημµένοις: a second invitation accord- ing to Eastern custom still prevailing (Rosenmiller, Morgenland, v. 192 ; Thom- son, Land and Book, vol. i. chap. ix.). —Ver. 18. ἀπὸ pias (supply γνώμης, ψυχῆς, Spas, or some such word im- plying with one mind, or at one time, or in the same manner, here only in Greek literature), with one consent.—rapa- τεῖσθαι: not to refuse, but in courteous terms to excuse themselves.—6é πρῶτος, the first; of three, simply samples, by no means exhausting the list of possible excuses.—aypov ἠγόρασα: a respectable excuse, by no means justifying absence, but excellently exemplifying preoccupa- tion, the state ofmind commontoall. A man who has purchased a farm is for a
_while very much taken up with it and
makes himself very busy about it; every- thing else for the moment secondary.— ἔχω ἀνάγκην : no fewer than three Latin- isms have been found in this sentence ; this, the use of épw7@ in the sense of rogo, and ἔχε pe παρῃτημµένον (Grotius). But parallels can be found in Greek authors for the first. Kypke cites an instance of ~
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KATA AOYKAN XIV. παρητηµένον. 20. καὶ ἕτερος εἶπε, Γυναῖκα ἔγημα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὗ δύναμαι ἐλθεῖν. 21. καὶ παραγενόµενος 6 δοῦλος ἐκεῖνος] ἁπ- ήγγειλε τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα. Τότε ὀργισθεὶς ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης εἶπε τῷ δούλῳ αὐτοῦ, Ἔξελθε ταχέως eis τὰς πλατείας καὶ ῥύμας τῆς πόλεως, καὶ τοὺς πτωχοὺς καὶ ἀναπήρους καὶ χωλοὺς καὶ τυφλοὺς ” εἰσάγαγε ὧδε. 22. Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ δοῦλος, Κύριε, γέγονεν ὡς ἓ ἐπέταξας, καὶ ἔτι τόπος ἐστί. 23. Καὶ εἶπεν 6 κύριος πρὸς τὸν δοῦλον, Ἔξελθε εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς καὶ φραγμούς, καὶ ἀνάγκασον εἰσελθεῖν, ἵνα