Ver. 26. πορεύθητι . . . εἶπέ: the quotation is accurately taken from the LXX, Isai. vi. 9, 10, and the first line is additional to the words otherwise given in full by St. Matthew; as the speaker is the messenger to the Jews who condemns
25---20.
οὗ μὴ curate: καὶ βλέποντες βλέψετε, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἴδητε.
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27. ἐπα-
, ‘ ς , “ a , Λ a wie , 34 χύνθη γὰρ ἡ καρδία τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου, καὶ τοῖς dot βαρέως ἤκουσαν,
καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν ἐκάμμυσαν: µήποτε wor τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς,
‘ A - ga > , ‘ ~ , A SoS , 9 καὶ τοῖς ὠσὶν ἀκούσωσι, καὶ TH Kapdia συνῶσι καὶ ἐπιστρέψωσι, καὶ
a) nt 3 rae LagWHat αυτους.
9 > » στα σ aA ” 28. Ὑγνωστὸν οὖν ἔστω ὑμῖν, ὅτι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν
ἀπεστάλη 3 τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ, αὐτοὶ καὶ ἀκούσονται.ὸ 29. καὶ
ταῦτα αὐτοῦ εἰπόντος, ἀπῆλθον οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι, πολλὴν έχοντες ἐν
ἑαυτοῖς συζήτησι».
1Ἐοί νασωμαι (so Lach.) $ABHLP, Sev. Theophl., so Tisch., Weiss, W.H.,
Wendt, Blass, Hilg. read ιασοµαι.
2 After απεσταλη NQ*AB Vulg., Syr. P. and H., Aethpp., Tisch., W.H., R.V.,
Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. read τουτο.
3 The whole of the verse is wanting in SABE 13, 49, 61, 68, so in W.H., Weiss,
but retained by Blass in B, Hilg., with HLP, Syr. H.
Par
c*, Vulg.Clem., Gig.,
Wendt describes it as an interpolation, cf. ver. 25, see also Lightfoot On a
Fresh Revision, etc., p. 29; Blass, Phil. of the Gospels, p. g2.
this hardness of heart, he applies to him- self the word πορ.
Ver. 27. ἰάσωμαι, see critical note ; the indicative future as in R.V. adds to the force and vigour of the passage ; after µή it represents the action of the verb as more vividly realised as possible and probable than is the case when the subjunctive is used (Page), see also Winer-Moulton, lvi., 2a ; Bethge, p. 331; cf. Luke xii. 58, Acts xxi. 24 (Blass). It is significant that Luke the physician should thus cite as almost the last words of his record a prophecy ending with ἰάσομαι (Plummer, St. Luke, Introd., p. Ixvi.).
Ver. 28. Ὑγνωστὸν οὖν: for the word similarly used cf. ii. 14, iv. 10 ; xiii. 38.— τοῦτο τὸ σωτ., See Critical note ; cf. LXX, Ps. Ixvi. 2, xCvii. 2, 3. σωτ., adjective, neuter of σωτήριος, used substantively (as in classical Greek), so often in LXX of the Messianic salvation; cf. Luke ii. 30, iii. 6, Ephes. wi. 17, and Clem. Rom., Cor., xxxv., 12, xxxvi., 1. The word is used only by St. Luke and St. Paul, see Plummer, note on Luke iii. 6. For the whole expression here cf. xiii. 26, where words very similar are used by Paul, and with very similar results, ver. 46. τοῦτο, emphatic this, the very message of God’s salvation, this is what I am declaring to γοι.-- αὐτοὶ καὶ ἀκούσονται: ‘they will also hear,” R.V. The words thus rendered may not convey so plainly a reproach to the Jews as in A.V., but at the same time they ex- press something more than the mere fact that Gentiles as well as Jews will now hear the message ; that message will not
only be sent (ἀπεστάλη), but also heard ; the καί may well indicate that whilst the Jews will hear with the ear only as dis- tinct from the understanding, the Gentiles will not only hear, but really (καί) listen (see Rendall and Weiss, in loco). At the same time we must remember that as a background to what the Apostle here says we have his words in Rom. ix.-xi., and the thought which he had expressed to the Roman Church that God had not really cast away His people, but whilst through their unbelief the Gentiles had been called, yet that inclusion of the heathen in the Messianic kingdom would rouse the Jews to jealousy, and that thus all Israel would be saved, Rom. xi. 11; cf. x. 19; Sanday and Headlam, Romans, p. 341 ff. We can scarcely doubt that the words are uttered not merely to condemn, but to lead to re- pentance; at all events it would not be possible to find stronger words against his own countrymen than those written by St. Paul in his earliest Epistle, 1 Thess. ii. 15, 16; and yet we know how St. Paul, for those same countrymen, could wish himself accused; so Bethge, as against Overbeck, who can only see that in Acts the belief of the Gentiles re- sults not in a noble jealousy, but in the bitter envy of the Jews. But there blends with the tone of sadness a note of triumph in the words αὐτοὶ καὶ ἀκού- σονται, the future of his message is as- sured, and we may borrow two words as an inscription for these closing pages of St. Luke’s second treatise—the last word ofthe Apostle, and the last of the historian