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ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀγορασάτω µάχαιραν.
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37. λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν, ὅτι
ἔτι] τοῦτο τὸ γεγραµµένον δεῖ τελεσθῆναι ἐν ἐμοί, τό, ‘Kab μετὰ
ἀνόμων ἐλογίσθη ”:
«έ Ἰκαγόν ἐστι.
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38. Οἱ δὲ
Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς,
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30. ΚΑΙ ἐξελθὼν ἐπορεύθη κατὰ τὸ ἔθος εἰς τὸ ὄρος τῶν Ἐλαιῶν "
ἠκολούθησαν δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ.
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AO. γενόμενος δὲ
2 For ra NBDLT 1 have το (Tisch., W.H.).
3 Omit avrov NABDLT 1, 13, etc. (Tisch., W.H.).
(W.H. brackets),
or near future.—apdrw, lift it: if he has a purse let him carry it, it will be needed, either to buy a sword or, more generally, to provide for himself; he is going now not on a peaceful mission in connection with which he may expect friendly recep- tion and hospitality, but on a campaign in an enemy’s country.—é μὴ ἔχων, he who has not; either purse and scrip, or, with reference to what follows, he who hath not already such a thing as a sword let him by all means get ΟΠΕ.--πωλησάτω τὸ ἵμάτιον, let him sell his upper garment, however indispensable for clothing by day and by night. A sword the one thing needtul. This is a realistic speech true to the manner of Jesus and, what is rare in Lk., given without toning down, a genuine logion without doubt.—Ver. 37. τὸ γεγραμµένον: the words quoted are from Is. liii. 2, and mean that Jesus was about to die the death of a criminal.—8et, it is necessary, in order that Scripture might be fulfilled. No other or higher view than this of the rationale of Christ’s sufferings is found in Luke’s Gospel. Cf. xxiv. 26. A Paulinist in his universalism, he shows no acquaintance with St. Paul’s theology of the atonement unless it be in ver. 20.—16 (τὰ T.R.) περὶ ἐμοῦ, that which concerns me, my life course.— τέλος ἔχει is coming to an end. Some think the reference is still to the pro- phecies concerning Messiah and take τέλος ἔχει in the sense of ‘‘is being ful- filled,’’ a sense it sometimes bears: τελει- οὔται ἤδη, Euthy. Kypke renders: rata sunt, the phrase being sometimes used in reference to things whose certainty and authority cannot be questioned = ‘‘ my doom is fixed beyond recall’’—Ver. 38. µάχαιραι δύο: how did such a peaceable company come to have even so much as one sword? Were the two weapons really swords, fighting instruments, or
B omits και before οι pad.
large knives? The latter suggestion, made by Chrysostom and adopted by Euthym., is called ‘‘ curious” by Alford, but regarded by Field (Οἱ. Nor.) as ‘* probable ’’.—ixavév, enough! {.ε., for one who did not meantofight. Itisa pregnant word = “ for the end I have in view more than enough ; but also enough of misunderstanding, disenchantment, speech, teaching, and life generally,” Holtzmann, H. Ο.
Vv. 39-46. Gethsemane (Mt. xxvi. 36- 46, Mk. xiv. 32-42). Lk.’s narrative here falls far short of the vivid realism of the parallels. Mt. and Mk. allow the in- firmity of the great High Priest of human- ity so graphically described in the Epistle to the Hebrews to appear in its appalling naked truth. Lk. throws a veil over it, so giving an account well adapted doubt- less to the spiritual condition of first readers, but not so well serving the deep- est permanent needs of the Church. This statement goes on the assumption that νν. 43, 44 are no part of the genuine © text, for in these, especially in ver. 44, the language is even more realistic than that of Mk., and is thus out of harmony with the subdued nature of Lk.’s narra- tive in general. This want of keeping with the otherwise colourless picture of the scene, which is in accord with Lk.’s uniform mode of handling the emphatic words, acts and experiences of Jesus, is, in my view, one of the strongest argu- ments against the genuineness of vv. 43,