Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 7]
t•i mur•i\). Imperfect active again of \aleiph•\, a very common
verb. \Chri•\ has a more religious sense. The anointing came
after the burst of emotional excitement.
7:39 {This man} (\houtos\). Contemptuous, this fellow. {If he
were a (the) prophet} (\ei •n [ho] proph•t•s\). Condition of the
second class, determined as unfulfilled. The Pharisee assumes
that Jesus is not a prophet (or the prophet, reading of B, that
he claims to be). A Greek condition puts the thing from the
standpoint of the speaker or writer. It does not deal with the
actual facts, but only with the statement about the facts. {Would
have perceived} (\egin•sken an\). Wrong translation, would now
perceive or know (which he assumes that Jesus does not do). The
protasis is false and the conclusion also. He is wrong in both.
The conclusion (apodosis), like the condition, deals here with
the present situation and so both use the imperfect indicative
(\an\ in the conclusion, a mere device for making it plain that
it is not a condition of the first class). {Who and what manner
of woman} (\tis kai potap• h• gun•\). She was notorious in person
and character.
7:40 {Answering} (\apokritheis\). First aorist passive
participle, redundant use with \eipen\. Jesus answers the
thoughts and doubts of Simon and so shows that he knows all about
the woman also. Godet notes a tone of Socratic irony here.
7:41 {A certain lender} (\danist•i tini\). A lender of money with
interest. Here alone in the N.T. though a common word. {Debtors}
(\chreophiletai\). From \chre•\ (debt, obligation) and \opheil•\,
to owe. Only here and 16:5 in the N.T., though common in late
Greek writers. {Owed} (\•pheilen\). Imperfect active and so
unpaid. Five hundred \d•naria\ and fifty like two hundred and
fifty dollars and twenty-five dollars.
7:42 {Will love him most} (\pleion agap•sei auton\). Strictly,
comparative {more}, \pleion\, not superlative \pleista\, but most
suits the English idiom best, even between two. Superlative forms
are vanishing before the comparative in the _Koin•_. This is the
point of the parable, the attitude of the two debtors toward the
lender who forgave both of them (Plummer).
7:43 {I suppose} (\hupolamban•\). Old verb, originally to take up
from under, to bear away as on high, to take up in speech (Lu
10:30), to take up in mind or to assume as here and Ac 2:15.
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