Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 11].
here and 1Co 14:8, though an old and common word. {Here men
walking around} (\peripatountes\) walk over the tombs without
knowing it. These three woes cut to the quick and evidently made
the Pharisees wince.
11:45 {Thou reproachest us also} (\kai h•m•s hubrizeis\). Because
the lawyers (scribes) were usually Pharisees. The verb \hubriz•\
is an old one and common for outrageous treatment, a positive
insult (so Lu 18:32; Mt 22:6; Ac 14;5; 1Th 2:2). So Jesus
proceeds to give the lawyers three woes as he had done to the
Pharisees.
11:46 {Grievous to be borne} (\dusbastakta\). A late word in LXX
and Plutarch (\dus\ and \bastaz•\). Here alone in text of
Westcott and Hort who reject it in Mt 23:4 where we have "heavy
burdens" (\phortia barea\). In Gal 6:2 we have \bar•\ with a
distinction drawn. Here we have \phortizete\ (here only in the
N.T. and Mt 11:28) for "lade," \phortia\ as cognate accusative
and then \phortiois\ (dative after \ou prospsauete\, touch not).
It is a fierce indictment of scribes (lawyers) for their
pettifogging interpretations of the written law in their oral
teaching (later written down as _Mishna_ and then as _Gemarah_),
a terrible load which these lawyers did not pretend to carry
themselves, not even "with one of their fingers" to "touch"
(\prospsau•\, old verb but only here in the N.T.), touch with the
view to remove. Mt 23:4 has \kin•sai\, to move. A physician
would understand the meaning of \prospau•\ for feeling gently a
sore spot or the pulse.
11:48 {Consent} (\suneudokeite\). Double compound (\sun, eu,
doke•\), to think well along with others, to give full approval.
A late verb, several times in the N.T., in Ac 8:1 of Saul's
consenting to and agreeing to Stephen's death. It is a somewhat
subtle, but just, argument made here. Outwardly the lawyers build
tombs for the prophets whom their fathers (forefathers) killed as
if they disapproved what their fathers did. But in reality they
neglect and oppose what the prophets teach just as their fathers
did. So they are "witnesses" (\martures\) against themselves (Mt
23:31).
11:49 {The wisdom of God} (\h• sophia tou theou\). In Mt 23:34
Jesus uses "I send" (\eg• apostell•\) without this phrase "the
wisdom of God." There is no book to which it can refer. Jesus is
the wisdom of God as Paul shows (1Co 1:30), but it is hardly
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