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k Luke iii, ἀδελφὸς ἢ ἀδελφὴ γυμνοὶ *
στ ο].
It,
ὑπάρχωσιν καὶ λειπόμενοι: τῆς ἐφη-
cy. a a - Lev. xxv. µέρου τροφῆς, 16. ᾿εἴπῃ δέ τις! αὐτοῖς ἐξ ὑμῶν: ὑπάγετε ἐν 351 Job
Jo XXli. 6,
ΧΧΧΙ. 10, 20. I—1 1 John iii. 17, 18.
1 Add ωσιν ALP, m, Thl., Oec., rec. aru NO.
3 καὶ ειπη A, 13, a.
‘commandments,’ see above) did he ful- fil! He will rest among the righteous.” It is also said in Baba Bathra toa, that God placed the poor on earth in order to save rich men from Hell; the idea, of course, being that opportunities for doing Mitzvoth were thus provided. In a curious passage in the Testament of Abraham, chap. xvi., it is said that Than- atos met Abraham and told him that he welcomed the righteous with a pleasant look and with a salutation of peace, but the sinners he confronted with an angry and dark countenance; and he said that the good deeds of Abraham had become a crown upon his (Thanatos’) head. In Wisdom, iv. 1 we have, .. . ἀθανασία yap ἐστιν ἐν μνήμῃ αὐτῆς (ἀρετῆς), ὅτι καὶ παρὰ Θεῷ γινώσκεται καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποις. Cf. Enoch ciii. 1-4.
Ver. 15. In accordance with the very
practical nature of the writer, he now.
proceeds to give an illustration of his thesis which is bound to appeal; he must have been a telling preacher.—éav: the addition of δέ is fairly well attested, but the reading of ΒΝ where it is omitted is to be preferred—a& SeXy: the specific mention of ‘‘sister”’ here is noteworthy ; it is the one point in this passage which suggests distinctively Christian influence. This is apparently the only place in the Bible in which “sister” is mentioned in this special connection.—yupvot: Cf. Test. of the Twelve Patriarchs, Zeb. vii. 1-3; “I saw a man in distress through nakedness in winter-time, and had com- passion upon him, and stole away a gar- ment secretly from my father’s house (another reading is ‘my house’), and gave it to him who was in distress. Do you, therefore, my children, from that which God bestoweth on you, show com- passion and mercy without hesitation to all men, and give to every man with a good heart. And if you have not the wherewithal to give to him that needeth, have compassion for him in bowels of mercy” (Charles). Of course it is not literal nakedness that is meant in the passage before us; in the case of men
the Hebrew DOYY (= γυμνός), while often used in a literal sense, is also fre-
3 evret NI. 5 yraye Ο1 vid, 63.
quently used in reference to one who was not wearing a FSF (= χιτών) and thus appeared only in OID, “ under-gar- ments,” see Am. ii. 6; Isa. xx. 2£.; Job xxii. 6, xxiv. 7-10. In the case of women,
the reference is likewise to the FUSS, though in this case the garment was both longer and fuller than that of men; at the same time, it is improbable that the “sister” would have appeared without a veil, unless, indeed, we are dealing with a venue which is altogether more Western ; this is a possibility which cannot be wholly εχε]άεά.--λειπόμενοι: must be taken with ὑπάρχωσιν as the addition of ὦσιν is poorly attested._édypépov tpogrs: “the food for the day”; the words express the dire necessity of those in want. Cf. Matt. vi. 11, Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον, and Nestle’s note on ἐπιούσιος in Hast- ings’ D.C.G., ii. 58a. ἐφήμερος does not occur elsewhere in the N.T. or the Septu- agint.
Ver.16. ὑπάγετε,θερμαίνεσθε, χορτάζεσθε: these words do not seem to be spoken in irony; this is clear from the τί τὸ ὄφελος. They are spoken in all seriousness, and it is quite possible that those whom the writer is addressing were acting upon a mistaken application of Christ’s words in Matt. vi. 25 ti., Be not anxtous for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. .. . Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek ; for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. It was entirely in accordance with their idea of πίστις that these people should leave to their Heavenly Father what, according to both Jewish and Christian teaching, it was their duty to do.—_p.q δῶτε δὲ “The plural is often used after an in- definite singular” (Mayor).—ra ἐπι- τήδεια τοῦ σώματος: only here in the N.T., but often found in classical writers; Mayor gives instances.—r ft τὸ ὄφελος: inthe earlier passage in which