Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 17].
despised Samaritan. The \autos\ has point here.
17:18 {Save this stranger} (\ei m• ho allogen•s\). The old word
was \allophulos\ (Ac 10:28), but \allogen•s\ occurs in the LXX,
Josephus, and inscriptions. Deissmann (_Light from the Ancient
East_, p. 80) gives the inscription from the limestone block from
the Temple of Israel in Jerusalem which uses this very word which
may have been read by Jesus: {Let no foreigner enter within the
screen and enclosure surrounding the sanctuary} (\M•thena
allogen• eisporeuesthai entos tou peri to hieron truphaktou kai
peribolou\).
17:20 {With observation} (\meta parat•se•s\). Late Greek word
from \parat•re•\, to watch closely. Only here in the N.T. Medical
writers use it of watching the symptoms of disease. It is used
also of close astronomical observations. But close watching of
external phenomena will not reveal the signs of the kingdom of
God.
17:21 {Within you} (\entos hum•n\). This is the obvious, and, as
I think, the necessary meaning of \entos\. The examples cited of
the use of \entos\ in Xenophon and Plato where \entos\ means
"among" do not bear that out when investigated. Field (_Ot.
Norv_.) "contends that there is no clear instance of \entos\ in
the sense of among" (Bruce), and rightly so. What Jesus says to
the Pharisees is that they, as others, are to look for the
kingdom of God within themselves, not in outward displays and
supernatural manifestations. It is not a localized display "Here"
or "There." It is in this sense that in Lu 11:20 Jesus spoke of
the kingdom of God as "come upon you" (\ephthasen eph' hum•s\),
speaking to Pharisees. The only other instance of \entos\ in the
N.T. (Mt 23:26) necessarily means "within" ("the inside of the
cup"). There is, beside, the use of \entos\ meaning "within" in
the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus saying of Jesus of the Third Century
(Deissmann, _Light from the Ancient East_, p. 426) which is
interesting: "The kingdom of heaven is within you" (\entos hum•n\
as here in Lu 17:21).
17:23 {Go not away nor follow after them} (\m• apelth•te m•de
di•x•te\). Westcott and Hort bracket \apelth•te m•de\. Note
aorist subjunctive with \m•\ in prohibition, ingressive aorist.
Do not rush after those who set times and places for the second
advent. The Messiah was already present in the first advent
(verse 21) though the Pharisees did not know it.
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