Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 18].
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18:1 {To the end that} (\pros to dein\). {With a view to the
being necessary}, \pros\ and the articular infinitive. The
impersonal verb \dei\ here is in the infinitive and has another
infinitive loosely connected with it \proseuchesthai\, to pray.
{Not to faint} (\m• enkakein\). Literally, not to give in to evil
(\en, kake•\, from \kakos\, bad or evil), to turn coward, lose
heart, behave badly. A late verb used several times in the N.T.
(2Co 4:1,16, etc.).
18:2 Regarded not (\m• entrepomenos\). Present middle participle
of \entrep•\, old verb, to turn one on himself, to shame one, to
reverence one. This was a "hard-boiled" judge who knew no one as
his superior. See on ¯Mt 21:37.
18:3 {Came oft} (\•rcheto\). Imperfect tense denotes repetitions,
no adverb for "oft" in the Greek. {Avenge me of} (\ekdik•son me
apo\). A late verb for doing justice, protecting one from another
(note both \ek\ and \apo\, here). Deissmann (_Light from the
Ancient East_, pp. 420ff.) quotes a \st•l•\ of the second century
B.C. with a prayer for vengeance for a Jewish girl that had been
murdered which has this very verb \ekdike•\.
18:4 {He would not} (\ouk •thelen\). Imperfect tense of continued
refusal. {Though} (\ei kai\). Concerning sentence, not \kai ei\
(even if).
18:5 {Yet} (\ge\). Delicate intensive particle of deep feeling as
here. {Because this widow troubleth me} (\dia to parechein moi
kopon t•n ch•ran taut•n\). Literally, because of the furnishing
me trouble as to this widow (accusative of general reference with
the articular infinitive). {Lest she wear me out} (\hina m•
hup•piaz•i me\). Some take it that the judge is actually afraid
that the widow may come and assault him, literally beat him under
the eye. That idea would be best expressed here by the aorist
tense.
18:6 {The unrighteous judge} (\ho krit•s t•s adikias\). The judge
of unrighteousness (marked by unrighteousness), as in 16:8 we
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(Luke: Chapter 18)