Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 10].
another question to show that he did have some point at first:
{And who is my neighbour?} (\kai tis estin mou pl•sion;\). The
Jews split hairs over this question and excluded from "neighbour"
Gentiles and especially Samaritans. So here was his loop-hole. A
neighbour is a nigh dweller to one, but the Jews made racial
exceptions as many, alas, do today. The word \pl•sion\ here is an
adverb (neuter of the adjective \pl•sios\) meaning \ho pl•sion
•n\ (the one who is near), but \•n\ was usually not expressed and
the adverb is here used as if a substantive.
10:30 {Made answer} (\hupolab•n\). Second aorist active
participle of \hupolamban•\ (see 7:43), to take up literally,
and then in thought and speech, old verb, but in this sense of
interrupting in talk only in the N.T. {Was going down}
(\katebainen\). Imperfect active describing the journey. {Fell
among robbers} (\l•istais periepesen\). Second aorist ingressive
active indicative of \peripipt•\, old verb with associative
instrumental case, to fall among and to be encompassed by
(\peri\, around), to be surrounded by robbers. A common
experience to this day on the road to Jericho. The Romans placed
a fort on this "red and bloody way." These were bandits, not
petty thieves. {Stripped} (\ekdusantes\). Of his clothing as well
as of his money, the meanest sort of robbers. {Beat him} (\pl•gas
epithentes\). Second aorist active participle of \epitith•mi\, a
common verb. Literally, "placing strokes or blows" (\pl•gas\,
plagues) upon him. See Lu 12:48; Ac 16:23; Re 15:1,6,8 for
"plagues." {Half-dead} (\h•mithan•\). Late word from \h•mi\,
half, and \thn•sk•\, to die. Only here in the N.T. Vivid picture
of the robbery.
10:31 {By chance} (\kata sugkurian\). Here only in the N.T.,
meaning rather, "by way of coincidence." It is a rare word
elsewhere and in late writers like Hippocrates. It is from the
verb \sugkure•\, though \sugkur•sis\ is more common. {Was going
down} (\katebainen\). Imperfect active as in verse 30. Passed
by on the other side (\antipar•lthen\). Second aorist active
indicative of \antiparerchomai\, a late double compound here
(verses 31,32) only in the N.T., but in the papyri and late
writers. It is the ingressive aorist (\•lthen\), came alongside
(\para\), and then he stepped over to the opposite side (\anti\)
of the road to avoid ceremonial contamination with a stranger. A
vivid and powerful picture of the vice of Jewish ceremonial
cleanliness at the cost of moral principle and duty. The Levite
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