6 Omit του all uncials.
lazaretto, lazar, etc.—Ver.21. ἐπιθυμῶν, desiring, perhaps not intended to suggest that his desire was not gratified. Suppose morsels did come to him from the rich man’s table, not meant for him specially, but for the hungry without, including the wild street dogs, would that exhaust the duty of Dives to his poor brother ? But the trait is introduced to depict the poor man’s extreme misery rather than the rich man’s sin,—@AAG καὶ: no ellipse implied such as that supplied by the Vulgate: et nemo illi dabat. Borne- mann supplies: ‘‘ not only was he filled with the crumbs,” etc., but also, etc. (οὐ µόνον ἐχορτάσθη ἀπὸ τῶν ψιχίων-- πλουσίον, ἀλλὰ, εἴο.).--ἀλλὰ simply in- troduces a new feature, and heightens the picture of misery (so Schanz) = he was dependent on casual scraps for his food, and moreover, etc.—ézéAetxov, licked (here only in N.T.) ; was this an ageravation ora mitigation? Opinionis much divided. Or is the point that dogs were his companions, now licking his sores (whether a benefit or otherwise), now scrambling with him for the morsels thrown out? The scramble was as much a fact as the licking. Furrer speaks of witnessing dogs and lepers waiting together for the refuse (Wanderungen, p. 40).—Ver. 22. The end comes to the two ππεη.---ἀπενεχθῆναι: the poor man dies, and is carried by angels into the bosom of Abraham ; the man, body and soul (so Meyer), but of course this is poetry. What really happened to the carcase is passed over in delicate re- serve.—éragyn : of course Dives was buried with all due pomp, his funeral worth mentioning. (‘‘It is not said that the poor man was buried because of the meanness of poor men’s burial, but it is