tows τοῦτον ἰδόντες ὶ ἐντραπήσονται. 14. ᾿Ιδόντες δὲ αὐτὸν of γεωργοὶ διελογίζοντο πρὸς ἑαυτούς,; λέγοντες, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρο- νόμος: δεῦτε, ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτόν, ἵνα ἡμῶν γένηται ἡ κληρονοµία. 15. Καὶ ἐκβαλόντες αὐτὸν ἔξω τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος, ἀπέκτειναν. ποιήσει αὐτοῖς 6 κύριος τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος ;
Τί οὖν 16. ἐλεύσεται καὶ ἀπολέσει τοὺς γεωργοὺς τούτους, καὶ δώσει τὸν ἀμπελῶνα ἄλλοις.” 3 9 «ες a , 3» σαντες δὲ εἶπον, “Mh γένοιτο.
᾽Ακού- 17. Ὁ δὲ ἐμβλέψας αὐτοῖς εἶπε, “Ti οὖν ἐστι τὸ γεγραμµένον τοῦτο, ΄Λίθον ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες, οὗτος ἐγενήθη εἰς κεφαλὴν γωνίας; 18. Mas ὅ πεσὼν ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν λίθον συνθλασθήσεται; ἐφ ὃν 8 ἂν πέσῃ,
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, > Ff 2 λικμήσει αὐτόν.
19. Καὶ ἐζήτησαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ of γραμματεῖς !
ἐπιβαλεῖν ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν τὰς χεῖρας ἐν αὐτῇ TH ὥρα, καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν τὸν λαόν: ἔγνωσαν γὰρ ὅτι πρὸς αὐτοὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην εἶπε."
‘ Gut Boorm 9 BCDLQ 1, 33, 131 verss.
2 adAndous in NBDLR 1, 33 al.
3 Omit Sevre B and other uncials (Tisch., W.H.).
4 ov γραμ. και ot αρχ. in BL al. 1, 33 al. pl. verss.
5 ειπεν before την παρ. in NB (D ειρηκεν) L 13, 69, etc.
sending him. In Lk. the reference to the son has a theological colour: τὸν vidv µου τὸν ἀγαπητόν.- ἴσως: more than “‘ perhaps ” or “‘ it may be” (A.V., R.V.), and less than “ without doubt” (‘sine dubio,” Wolf). It expresses what may naturally and reasonably be expected τάχα (Hesychius), or οἶμαι (Bornemann) =I should think (they will reverence him). Here only in N.T.—Ver. 15. éxBadovres ἀπέκ- τειναν, casting out they killed him, in- verting the order of the actions in Mk.; perhaps with prospective reference (on Lk.’s part) to the crucifixion, when Jesus was led outside the city and crucified ‘‘without the gate’’.—Ver. 16. Ὑένοιτο: here only in the Gospels, fre- quent in St. Paul’s Epistles (‘‘a Pauline phrase,” Holtzmann, H. C.), Sturz (De Dialecto Mac. et Alex.) reckons it an Alexandrine usage, because found in the sense of deprecation only in Sept., N.T., and late Greek writers. Raphel cites an example from Herodotus. This μὴ γένοιτο is put by Lk. into the mouth of the people, as unable to contemplate the doom pronounced on the husbandmen as described by Jesus. In Mt. (xxi. 41) the people themselves pronounce the doom. The sentiment thus strongly ex- pressed prepares the way for the reference to the ‘‘ rejected stone”.
Vv. 17-19.—épBAeWas, looking in- tently, to give impressiveness to what
He is going to say in reply.—rf οὖν, etc., what then is (means) this Scripture? the οὖν implying that the words point to the very doom they deprecate. Yet the oracle does not directly indicate the fate of the builders, but rather the unex- pected turn in the fortunes of the re- jected and despised Stone. In Mt. and Mk. the citation is introduced, without any binding connection with what im- mediately goes before, to state a fact concerning the future of the ‘‘Son”’ lying outside the parable. They give the citation in full. Lk. omits the last clause: παρὰ κυρίου, etc.—Ver. 18 points out the bearing of the turn in the fortunes of the ‘‘ Stone” on the fate of those who rejected Him. The thought is based on Daniel ii. 35. It is not in Mk., and it is a doubtful reading in Mt. It may have been a comment on the oracle from the Psalter suggested to believing minds by the tragic fate of the Jews. They first stumbled on the stone, then the stone fell on them with crushing judicial effect.—Ver. το states the effect of the parabolic discourse of Jesus on the men whom it satirised. They desired to apprehend the obnoxious Speaker on the spot.—év αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρᾳ, καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν, etc.: the καὶ here, as in ΜΠς., is in efiect = but; vide notes on Mk.—éyvocay, they, that is the Pharisees and scribes, knew.—rpbes αὐτούς = with reference to themselves.