Vv. 8-11. Signs prelusive of the end (Mt. xxiv. 4-8, Mk, xiii. 5-11).---βλέπετε, etc., take heed that ye be not deceived. This the keynote—not to tell when, but to protect disciples from delusions and terrors.—émt τῷ ὀνόματί pov, in my name, 2.6., calling themselves Christs. Vide at Mt. on these false Messiahs.—é καιρὸς ἤγγικε: the καιρὸς should natur- ally mean Jerusalem’s fatal day.—Ver. 9-
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καὶ " ἀκαταστασίας, μὴ πτοηθῆτε: δεῖ γὰρ ταῦτα γενέσθαι πρῶτον, a x Cor. xiv.
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ἔθνος ἐπὶ ἔθνος, καὶ βασιλεία ἐπὶ βασιλείαν" 11. σεισμοί τε μεγάλοι
10. Τότε ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς, '΄ Ἐγερθήσεται
33. 2 Cor. Vi. 5; χα 20. Jas. iii, 16.
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σημεῖα dm οὐρανοῦ μεγάλα ἔσται.
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ἐπιβαλοῦσιν ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, καὶ διώξουσι, παραδιδόντες
eis συναγωγὰς ΄ καὶ φυλακάς, ἀγομένουςῦ ἐπὶ βασιλεῖς καὶ ἡγεμόνας,
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14. θέσθε οὖν εἰς τὰς καρδίας Ἰ ὑμῶν, μὴ προμελετᾷν ἀπολογηθῆναι :
15. ἐγὼ γὰρ δώσω ὑμῖν στόµα καὶ σοφίαν, ᾗ οὐ δυνήσονται ἀντειπεῖν
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3 dup. και λοιµ. in SDL (Tisch.). 4 ras before συναγ. in BD.
6 Omit δε NBD.
ἀκαταστασίας, unsettled conditions, for ἀκοὰς πολέμων in Mt. and Mk., and per- haps intended as an explanation of that vague phrase. Hahn refers to the French Revolution and the Socialist movement of the present day as illustrating the πιεαπίηρ.---πτοηθῆτε = θροεῖσθε in par- allels ; here and in xxiv. 37.--δεῖ γὰρ, etc., ¢f. the laconic version in Mk. (W. and H.) and notes there.—mpGrov, οὐκ εὐθέως: both emphasising the lesson that the crisis cannot come before certain things happen, and the latter hinting that it will not come even then.—Ver. 1ο. τότε ἔλεγεν points to a new beginning in discourse, which has the effect of dis- sociating the repeated mention of politi- cal disturbances from what goes before, and connecting it with apostolic tribula- tions referred to in the sequel. In Mt. and Mk. the verse corresponding is sim- ply an expansion of the previous thought. —Ver. II. καὶ κατὰ τόπους: the καὶ thus placed (§QBL) dissociates κ. τ. from σεισμοί and connects it with λοιμοὶ καὶ λιμοὶ;: not earthquakes, but pestilences and famines here, there, everywhere. λ. καὶ A., a baleful conjunction common in speech and in fact.—oByrpa, terrifying phenomena, here only in N.T. (in Is. xix. 17, Sept.). The τε connects the Φόβητρα with the signs from heaven next mentioned. They are in fact the same thing (ἕν διὰ δυοῖν, Bengel).
Vv. 12-19. Signs earlier still (Mt. xxiv. g-14, Mk. xiii. 9-13).—Ver. 12. πρὸ δὲ τούτων ἁπάντων: this phrase may be in- troduced here because Mk.’s account
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7 Gere ουν ev ταις καρδιαις in NABDLX 33.
lying under Lk.’s eye mentions the signs in the heaven at a later stage, ver. 24. Or it may be Lk.’s equivalent for “‘ these things are the beginning of birth pangs” (Mt. ver. 8, Mk. ver. 9), a Hebrew idea which he avoids.—amayopévous: a tech- nical term in Athenian legal language.— Ver. 13. ἀποβήσεται, it will turn out; as in Phil. i. 19.— piv εἰς μαρτύριον, for a testimony to you = to your credit or honour; = eis μαρτυρίου δόξαν, Theophy. So also Bleek. J. Weiss (Meyer), follow- ing Baur and Hilgenfeld, renders: it will result in your martyrdom. This meaning is kindred to that of Theophy., but can hardly be intended here (Schanz). The idea belongs to a later time, and the sense is scarcely consistent with ver. 18.—Ver. 14. θέτε οὖν: not = consider, as in i. 66, but = resolve, as in Acts v. 4 (‘‘ settle it in your hearts,” A.V.).—py προμελετόν (here only in N.T.), not to study before- hand, with the inf.; not to be taken in the letter, as a rule, but in the spirit, therefore = Mk.’s προμεριμνᾶτε which counsels abstinence from anxious thought before- hand.—Ver. 15. éyw, I, emphatic, the ex- alted Lord, instead of ‘‘the Holy Spirit” in Mk. and “the Spirit of the Father ” in Mt.x. 20. The substitution bears witness to the inspiring effect of the thought of the Lord Jesus ruling in heaven on the minds of Christians enduring tribulation, at the time when Lk. wrote.—orépa, a mouth = utterance.—_-codiav: the wisest thing to say in the actual situation.— ἀντιστῆναι refers to στόμα, and ἀντειπεῖν to σοφίαν = '' They will not be able to