39
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σε, καὶ συνέξουσί σε πάντοθεν, 44. καὶ ἐδαφιοῦσί σε καὶ τὰ τέκνα σου ἐν got, καὶ οὖκ ἀφήσουσιν ἐν σοὶ λίθον ἐπὶ λίθῳ1: dv ὧν οὐκ
ἔγνως τὸν καιρὸν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς σου.”
45. Καὶ εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὸ ἵερόν, ἤρξατο ἐκβάλλειν τοὺς πωλοῦντας
ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀγοράζοντας,” 46. λέγων αὗτοῖς, ““Γέγραπται, ‘“O οἶκός µου οἶκος προσευχῆς ἐστίν Σ. ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ἐποιήσατε
σπήλαιον λῃστῶν.”
47. Καὶ ἦν διδάσκων τὸ καθ) ἡμέραν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ» οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς ἐζήτουν αὐτὸν ἀπολέσαι, καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι τοῦ λαοῦ -
I here only
Ne: - oe αὐτοῦ aKovwr.
48. καὶ οὐχ εὕρισκον τὸ τί ποιήσωσιν, ὁ λαὸς γὰρ ἅπας } ἐξεκρέματο"
1 λιθον επι λιθον ev σοι in ΔΒΓΡΙ, (D with other texts have ev ολη σοι: e, in tota
terra).
2 S8BCL 1, 69, 209 al. omit εν αντω, and NBL 1, 209 syr. sin. Orig. omit και αγοραζοντας, which, in view of Lk.’s editorial peculiarities, is to be rejected.
5 SSBLR 1, 13, 69 al. have και εσται ο o1k. µ. ok. προσευχης (Tisch., W.H.). 4 εξεκρεµετο in KB (W.H., also Tisch., who remarks: a vulgari usu haud aliena
videtur fuisse).
fore is already past.—éxpvBy: judicial blindness has set in, the penalty of a long course of moral perversity.—Ver. 43. ὅτι, for, because, introducing a prophetic picture of coming ruin, either to explain the εἰ ἔγνως = what you would have escaped had you but known; or to sub- stantiate the assertion of judicial blind- ness Ξ Πο hope of your seeing now; your fate sealed; judgment days will surely come (ἤξουσιν ἡμέραι). Then follows an αγνή αἱ picture of these judgment days in a series of clauses connected by a fivefold καὶ, the first being = when. The description recalls Isaiah xxix. 3 so closely that the use of such definite phrases before the event is quite conceiv- able, although many critics think the prophecy so certainly ex eventu as to use it for fixing the date of the Gospel.— χάρακα, a palisade (here only in N.T.). Titus did erect a palisaded mound around Jerusalem, and, after it was destroyed by the Jews ina sortie, he built a wall.—Ver. 44. ἐδαφιοῦσι: this verb (here only in N.T., Sept. several times) has both oe and τὰ τέκνα σ. for its objects and must have a meaning assigned to it suitable to each: (1) to raze to the ground—in reference to the city, (2) to dash to the ground—in reference to the children or population of the city. Here only in N.T., frequent in Sept.—réov καιρὸν τ. ἐπισκοπῆς σ., the season of thy gracious visitation.—émwioKomy and its correspond- ing verb have this meaning in N.T. In
Sept. it is a vox media and is used with reference to visitations both in mercy and in judgment.
Vv. 45-48. Ύεσις in the temple (Mt. xxi. 12-17, Mk. xi. 15-19). We have here two tableaux: Jesus reforming temple abuses (45-46), and Jesus teach- ing in the temple to the delight of the people and the chagrin of their religious and social superiors. Of the former we have but a slight and colourless presenta- tion from Lk., whose editorial solicitudes, now well known to us, here come into play. The story astold by Mt. and Mk. shows passion (of the true Divine pro- phetic type) and action bordering on violence. ‘This disappears from Lk.’s page in favour of a decorous but neutral picture. J. Weiss thinks it incredible that Lk. should have given us so in- adequate a statement had he had such an account as that in Mk. before him (Meyer, eighth edition, note, p. 584). It is perfectly intelligible, once we under- stand Lk.’s method of handling his material, Equally groundless, for the same reason, is the inference of Hahn from the omissions of Lk. between vv. 44 and 45 (Mt. xxi. 10,11, Mk. xi. 11-14) that he cannot have known either Mt. or Mk.