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The Meal in Simon's House.

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36. ïva þáyp] In modern Greek, which properly speaking has no infinitive, the sense of the infinitive is expressed by vá (iva) with subjunctive (as in this passage), e.g. miðvμô và vpády, 'I wish him to write;' see Corfe's Modern Greek Grammar, p. 78. This extension of the force of "va to oblique petition, and even to consecutive clauses, may be partly due to the influence of the Latin ut; cf. ch. xvi. 27, ¿pwтŵ ovv, náteр, ἵνα πέμψης : see note on ch. iv. 3.

The following incident is recorded by St. Luke alone. Simon the Pharisee is not to be identified with Simon the leper, Matt. xxvi., Mark xiv. 3.

ȧVEKλion] The Jews had adopted the Roman, or rather Greek, fashion of reclining at meals—a sign of advancing luxury and of Hellenism, in which however even the Pharisee acquiesces.

37. yʊvý] There is no proof that this woman was Mary Magdalene. But medieval art has identified the two, and great pictures have almost disarmed argument in this as in other incidents of the gospel narrative.

38. áλáßασтρov] The neuter sing. is Hellenistic. The classical form is ἀλάβαστρος with a heteroclite plural ἀλάβαστρα, hence probably the late sing. ἀλάβαστρον. The grammarian stage of a language loves uniformity, Herod. iii. 20; Theocr. xv. 114:

Συρίω δὲ μύρω χρύσει ̓ ἀλάβαστρα.

στᾶσα παρὰ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ] This would be possible from the arrangement of the triclinium.

39. èyívwokev äv] 'Would (all the while) have been recognising.'

40. Xpewpeiλérai] A late word; the form varies between χρεωφειλέται and χρεοφειλέται.

41. Snvápia] The denarius was a silver coin originally containing ten ases (deni), afterwards, when the weight of the as was reduced, sixteen ases. Its equivalent modern value is reckoned at 71d. But such calculations are misleading; it is more to the point to regard the denarius as an average day's pay for a labourer.

42. un éxóvτwv] Because he saw that they had not ἐχαρίσατο] Cf. v. 21.

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