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οὗ οὐκ ἦν οὐδέπω οὐδεὶς 1 κείµενος. καὶ σάββατον ἐπέφωσκε.
643
54. καὶ ἡμέρα ἦν παρασκευή,ὰ
55. Κατακολουθήσασαι δὲ καὶ ὃ γυναῖκες, αἴτινες ἦσαν συνεληλυ- θυῖαι αὐτῷ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας," ἐθεάσαντο τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ ὡς ἐτέθη
τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ. 56. ὑποστρέψασαι
a δὲ ἠτοίμασαν ἀρώματα καὶ
µύρα καὶ τὸ μὲν σάββατον ἠσύχασαν κατὰ τὴν ἐντολήν, XXIV.
I. τῇ δὲ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων "ὄρθρου Babdos,® ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα,ό a Acts v.21. Φέρουσαι & ἠτοίμασαν ἀρώματα, καί τινες σὺν αὐταῖς.ῖ
' 2. ΕΥΡΟΝ δὲ τὸν λίθον ἀποκεκυλισμένον ἀπὸ τοῦ μνημείου, 3. και
1 ονδειξ ουδεπω in 39Ο (Tisch.); ovders ουπω in NBL (W.H.).
? wmapackeuys in NBC*L 13, 346. 3 Omit και NAC al. (Tisch.).
For δε και BLPX 33 al. have δε αι (W.H. text).
D codd. Lat. vet. have δε δυο (W.H. marg.).
4 αντω after Γαλ. in BL. 6 επι το µνηµα ηλθαν in NBL.
ὅβαθεως in NABCDL, εἰς,
7 και τ. συν αυταις Omitted in ΔΜΝΒΟΙ, 33 Lat. vet. vulg. cop.
finally religious character, one who was waiting for the Kingdom of God.—Ver./ 53. λαξευτῷ, cut out ofstone, here only, and in Deut. iv.49.—ovx, οὐδέπω, οὐδεὶς, an accumulation ofnegativesto emphasise the honour done to Jesus by depositing His body in a previously unused tomb. —Ver. 54. ἐπέφωσκε, was about to dawn, illucescebat, Vulgate. The even- ing is meant, and the word seems in- appropriate. Lk. may have used it as if he had been speaking of a natural day (as in Mt. xxviii. 1) by a kind of inad- vertence, or it may have been used with reference to the candles lit in honour of the day, or following the Jewish custom of calling the night light justified by the text, Ps. cxlviii. 3, ‘‘ Praise Him, all ye stars of light” (vide Lightfoot, Hor. Heb.). Or it may be a touch of poetry, likening the rising of the moon to a dawn. So Casaubon, Exercit. anti- Baronianae, p. 416.—Ver. 55. αἵτινες: possibly = at, but possibly meant to suggest the idea of distinction: Galilean women, and such in character as you would expect them to be: leal-hearted, passionately devoted to their dead Friend.—dpwpara, spices, dry.—pupa, ointments, liquid. Ver. 56. κατὰ τὴν ἐντολήν: they respected the Sabbath law as commonly understood. The purchase of spices and ointments is viewed by some as a proof that the day of Christ’s crucifixion was an ordinary working day.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE RESURREC¥ Tion. In this narrative Lk. diverges
widely from Mt. and Mk. both as to the appearances of the Risen Christ he re- ports and as to the scene of these. Specially noticeable is the limitation of the Christophanies to the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Galilee being left out of account.
Vv. 1-11. The women at the tomb (Mt. xxviii. 1-10, Mk, xvi. 1-8).—Ver. 1. τῇ δὲ µ.τ.σ.;: the δὲ answers to the μὲν in the preceding clause (xxiii. 56) and carries the story on without any break. The T.R. properly prints the clause introduced by τῇ δὲ as part of the sentence beginning with καὶ τὸ μὲν, dividing the two clauses by a comma.—@pOpov βαθέως (Babdos, T. R., a correction), at deep dawn = very early. βαθέως is either an adverb or an unusual form of the genitive of βαθύς. This adjective is frequently used in refer- ence to time. Thus Philo says that the Israelites crossed the Red Sea περὶ βαθὺν ὄρθρον. The end of the dawn was called ὄρθρος ἔσχατος, as in the line of Theo- critus: ὄρνιχες τρίτον ἄρτι τὸν ἔσχατον ὄρθρον ἄειδον (Idyll xxiv., ν., 63).--ἀρώ- para: the μύρα omitted for Ὀτενίίγ.--- Ver. 2. τὸν λίθον, the stone, not previ- ously mentioned by Lk., as in Mt. and Mk. ; nor does he (as in Mk.) ascribe to the women any solicitude as to its re- moval: enough for him that they found it rolled away.—Ver. 3. εἰσελβοῦσαι δὲ: this is obviously a better reading than καὶ εἰσ. (T.R.), which implies that they found what they expected, whereas the empty grave was a surprise.—Ver. 4. ἄνδρες, two men in appearance, but with