Vv. 22-25. The coming of the Son of Man (Mt. xxiv. 26-28).-- πρὸς τ.µαθητάς: so in Mt., but at a later time and at Jerusalem; which connection is the more original cannot be decided.— ἐλεύσονται ἡμέραι, there will come days (of tribulation), ominous hint like that in v. 35.—piav τ. 7, etc., one of the days of the Son of Man; not past days in the time of discipleship, but days to come. Tribulation will make them long fer the advent, which will put an end to their sorrows. One of the days; why not the first, the beginning of the Messianic period? Hahn actually takes µίαν as = first, Hebraistic fashion, as in
soso, ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ
τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἰδεῖν, καὶ οὖκ ὄψεσθε. 23. καὶ ἐροῦσιν ὑμῖν, Ιδοὺ ὧδε, ἤ, ἰδοὺ ἐκεῖλ: μὴ ἀπέλθητε, μηδὲ Ἡ διώξητε. 24. ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἡ ὃ ἀστράπτουσα ἐκ τῆς ὑπ οὐρανὸν “ εἰς τὴν bw οὐρανὸν λάμπει, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ὅ 6 vids τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ. 25. πρῶτον δὲ δεῖ αὐτὸν πολλὰ παθεῖν, καὶ ἀποδοκιμασθῆναι ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης. 26. καὶ καθὼς ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις TOG” Νῶε, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. 27. ἤσθιον, ἔπινον, ἐγάμουν, ἐξεγαμίζοντοιὃ ἄχρι is ἡμέρας εἰσῆλθε Νῶε εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, καὶ ἦλθεν 6 κατακλυσμός,
καὶ ἀπώλεσεν ἅπαντας. 28. ὁμοίως καὶ as? ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖς
ἡμέραις Adit ἤσθιον, ἔπινον, ἠγόραίον, ἐπώλουν, ἐφύτευον, «κοδό- µουν’ 29. ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξῆλθε Λὼτ ἀπὸ Σοδόµων, ἔβρεξε mip καὶ
θεῖον ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἀπώλεσεν ἅπαντας: 30. κατὰ ταῦτα 10 ἔσται
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1 For ιδου wSe η ιδον εκει some copies have ιδου wie Sov εκει (DXM), some ιθου εκει ιδου ὡδε (L). Some have this order of εκει, ωδε, but retaining η (B). S$ has και, 2 Omit απελθητε µηδε B 13, 69 (W.H. brackets),
3 Omit this η NBLXT 169 al. 4 vo τον ουρ. in NED al. 5 Omit και NABLX al.
8 BD 220 a b €i omit ev τη mp. a (W.H. text),
7 Omit του all uncials. 8 eyo. in RBDLX al. 9 και ws in D al, 0 κατα τα αντα in BDX al.
Mt. xxviii. 1, Mk. xvi. 2.—ot« ὄψεσθε, ye shall not see, not necessarily an absolute statement, but meaning: the vision will be deferred till your heart gets sick; so laying you open to tempta- tion through false readers of the times en- couraging delusive hope.—Ver. 23. ἐκεῖ, Se: cf. the more graphic version in Mt. xxiv. 26, and notes thereon.—py διώξητε, do not follow them, give no heed to them. —Ver. 24. ἐκ τῆς, χώρας understood, so also χώραν after εἰς τὴν = from this quarter under heaven to that. Here again Mt.’s version is the more graphic and original.= from east to west.—Ver. 25. πρῶτον δὲ δεῖ, etc.; the Passion must come before the glorious lightning- like advent. What you have to do ae is to prepare yourselves for that.
Vv. 26-30. The advent will be a sur- prise (Mt. xxiv. 37-41).—Ver. 27. ἤσθιον, είο.: note the four verbs without con- necting particles, a graphic asyndeton; and note the imperfect tense: those things going on up to the very hour of
καθως in SBLRX 13, 69 al, Τ.Ε. = SLA al.
the advent, as it was in the days of Noah, or in the fateful day of Pompeii. —Ver. 28. ὁμοίως: introducing a new comparison = similarly, as it was in the days, etc.—so shall it be in the day of, etc. (ver. 30), Bornemann ingeniously connects ὁμοίως with ἅπαντας going before, and, treating it as a Latinism, renders perdidit omnes pariter.—ijo@vov, etc. : again a series of unconnected verbs, and a Jarger, six, and all in the imperfect tense. This second comparison, taken from Lot’s history, is not given in Mt. The suddenness of the catastrophe makes it very apposite—Ver. 29. ἕβρεξε (Βρέχω): an old poetic word used in late Greek for tev, to rain. βροχή is the modern Greek for rain (vide Mt. v. 45). —Ver, 30. κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ, etc., the apodosis of the long sentence beginning νετ. 28.