pent (Hahn). By taking πεισθήσονται as meaning something less than µετα- νοήσουσιν, and emphasising the differ- ence between ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῇ and ἀπὸ νεκρῶν πορευθῇ (ver. 30), Trench (Notes on the Parables) makes this point: “A far mightier miracle than you demand would be ineffectual for producing a far slighter effect”. It is doubtful if the contrast be legitimate in either case; certainly not as between “‘repent” and «λε persuaded’. In the other case there may be the difference between an apparition and a resurrected man. It may be noted that the resurrection of Christ and of Christians is spoken of as ἐκ νεκρῶν (vide Lk. xx. 35), while the general resurrection is ἡ ἀνάσ. τῶν νεκ- pov (e.g., 1 Cor. xv. 42).
CHAPTER XVII. A COLLECTION ΟΕ SAYINGS, INCLUDING THE PARABLE ΟΕ Extra SERVICE. This chapter gives the impression of being a group of fragments with little connection in place, time, or topic, and nothing is gained for exegesis by ingenious attempts at logical or topi- cal concatenation. If we view the group of parables in chaps. xv., xvi. as a mass which has grown around the parable of the Lost Sheep as its nucleus, and reflect that that parable with the say- ings in xvii. 1-4 is found in Mt. xviil., we may with some measure of confidence draw the inference that the discourse on humility at Capernaum was the original locus of at least these elements of Luke’s narrative. That they are mixed up with so much matter foreign to Mt.’s record speaks to extensive transformation of the tradition of our Lord’s words by the time it reached Lk.’s hands (vide Weizsacker, Untier- suchungen, p. 177)+
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