σινιάσαι ὡς τὸν σῖτον: 32. ἐγὼ δὲ ἐδεήθην περὶ σοῦ, ἵνα μὴ ἐκλείπη |
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cou.” 33. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, “' Κύριε, μετὰ σοῦ ἔτοιμός εἰμι καὶ εἲς
φυλακὴν καὶ eis θάνατον πορεύεσθαι."
34. Ὁ δὲ εἶπε, “ Λέγω σοι,
Πέτρε, οὗ μὴ ὃ φωνήσει σήµερον ἀλέκτωρ, πρὶν ἢ τρὶς ἀπαρνήσῃ
μὴ εἰδέναι pe.” 5
35. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, '΄ Ὅτε ἀπέστειλα ὑμᾶς ἅτερ
Βαλαντίου καὶ πήρας καὶ ὑποδημάτων, ph τινος ὑστερήσατε; οἱ
δὲ εἶπον, “ Οὐδενός.” 6
κλιπη in SBDLT al,
Seornpigov in SABKLT 1 (Tisch., W.H.).
Σον without py in NBLTX.
36. Εἶπεν οὖν Ἰ αὐτοῖς, “*ANAG νῦν 6 ἔχων Βαλάντιον ἀράτω, ὁμοίως καὶ πήραν ' καὶ ὁ μὴ ἔχων πωλησάτω τὸ
T.R. = D, ete.
« For πριν η SWBLT 60 al. have ews ( ews οτον). ρ δ For απαρ... µε SBLT 13, 131 al. have pe απαρνηση ειδεναι (W.H.),
6 ουθενος in NBT al. (Tisch., W.H.).
κ ΕΕ ΜΟΙ
7 For ονν NcBLT have δε. SQ*D have ο δε ειπεν.
(vide on this and other senses of the aorist, Burton, M. and T., § 35). Field (Ot. Nor.) cites from Wetstein instances of such use and renders ἐξητ. %. peri- phrastically ‘‘Satan hath procured you to be given up to him’’.—tpas, you, the whole of you (though not emphatic) ; therefore, Simon, look to yourself, and to the whole brotherhood of which you ave the leading man. Bengel remarks: «6 Totus sane hic sermo Domini praesup- ponit P. esse primum apostolorum, quo stante aut cadente ceteri aut minus aut magis periclitarentur”.—owdoar: a ἅπ. λεγ., but of certain meaning. Hesychius gives as equivalent κοσ- κιγεῦσαι, from κόσκινον, a sieve. Euthy. Zig. is copious in synonyms = θορυβῆσαι, κυκῆσαι, ταράξαι. He adds, ‘‘what we call κόσκινον is by some called σινίον,᾽ and he thus describes the function of the sieve: ἐν ᾧ 6 σῖτος THSe κἀκεῖσε µεταφερόμενος ταράσσεται. “Sifting points to the result of the process antici- pated by Jesus. Satan aimed at ruin.— Ver. 32. ἐγὼ δὲ ἐδεήθην, but J have prayed: I working against Satan, and successfully.—tva μὴ ἐκλίπῃ ἡ π. σ., that thy faith may not (utterly) fail or die (xvi. 9), though it prove weak or in- adequate for the moment. Job’s faith underwent eclipse. He did not curse God, but for the time he lost faith in the reality of a Divine government in human affairs. So Peter never ceased to love Jesus, but he was overpowered by fear and the instinct of self-preservation.—
ἐπιστρέψας, having returned (to thy true self). Cf. στραφῆτε in Mt. xviii. 3. The word “converted,” as bearing a technical sense, should be allowed to fall into desuetude in this connection. Many regard ἐπιστρέψας as a Hebraism = vicissim: do thou in turn strengthen by prayer and otherwise thy brethren as I have strengthened thee. So, ¢.g., Grotius: “‘ Da operam ne in fide deficiant, nempe pro ipsis orans, sicut ego pro te oro”. Ingenious but doubtful.— στήρισον: later form for στήριξον; for the sense vide Acts xiv. 22 and 1 Pet. v. 10.—Ver. 33. els Φυλακὴν καὶ εἷς θάνατον: more definite reference to the dangers ahead than in any of the parallels.— Ver. 34. σήμερον, to-day, as in Mk., but without the more definite ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ.--μὴ εἰδέναι: μὴ after a verb of denial as often in Greek authors, 6.Ρ., τὸν Tap ἀπαρνηθέντα μὴ χρᾶναι λέχη, Eurip., Hippol., 1. 1256.
Vv. 35-38. Coming danger, peculiar to Lk. There is danger ahead physically as well as morally. Jesus turns now to the physical side. What He says about a sword is not to be taken literally. It is a vivid way of intimating that the su- preme crisis is at hand = the enemy approaches, prepare !—Ver. 35. ὅτε ἁπ- έστειλα: the reference is to ix. 3, or rather, so far as language is concerned, to x. 4, which relates to the mission of the seventy.—Grep as in ver. 6.—Ver. 36. ἀλλὰ viv, but now, suggesting an em-