Luke 11:50

Luk 11:50. Ἐκζητηθῇ) Hebrew דרש 2Ch 24:22.—πάντων, of all) There were prophets at all times: among these was also Abel.—ἀπὸ τῆς) Construe with ἐκζητηθῇ: with this comp. Luk 11:51.—[51. Ζαχαρίου, of Zechariah) the prophet. See 2Ch 24:20.—V. g.]

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Luk 11:50 . ἐκζητηθῇ , “a Hellenistic verb used in the sense of the Latin exquiro ,” Farrar (C. G. T.).

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That you may be called to an account for it, yea, and be punished, for the shedding of that blood of the Prophet.

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all . . . required of this generation--As it was only in the last generation of them that "the iniquity of the Amorites was full" (Gen 15:16), and then the abominations of ages were at once completely and awfully avenged, so the iniquity of Israel was allowed to accumulate from age to age till in that generation it came to the full, and the whole collected vengeance of Heaven broke at once over its devoted head. In the first French Revolution the same awful principle was exemplified, and Christendom has not done with it yet.

prophets--in the New Testament sense (Mat 23:34; see Co1 12:28).

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Verse 50. That the blood] That the particle ινα may be translated so that, pointing out the event only, not the design or intention, Bishop Pearce has well shown in his note on this place, where he refers to a like use of the word in Lu 9:45; Lu 14:10; Joh 10:17; Ro 5:20; Ro 11:11; 1Co 1:15; 1Co 1:31, &c.

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(50) The blood of all the prophets.—Here again we note a variation from “all the righteous blood” of Mat_23:35.

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Woe unto you lawyers,.... Who are particularly addressed again in distinction from the Pharisees, though much the same things are said to them both in Mat 23:13

for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; of the Scriptures, of the law, and the prophets, and the true interpretation of them, and especially of such places as refer to the Messiah, and the Gospel dispensation, called the kingdom of heaven, Mat 23:13 they had not only arrogated the knowledge of these to themselves, setting up for the only interpreters of the sacred writings; but they had took away from the people the true knowledge and sense of them, by their false glosses upon them, so that they were destroyed for lack of knowledge: and hence came that famine of hearing the word, which they say (c) should be before the coming of the King Messiah, and now was. The Syriac and Arabic versions read, "the keys of knowledge"; and the Ethiopic version, "the key of righteousness". The Jews sometimes speak of "the keys of the law", and represent the oral law as the root and key of the written law (d): but, alas! it was by the oral law, or traditions of the elders, that they took away the key, or obscured the true sense of the written law. Some think, that here is an allusion to the custom of delivering a key to any one, when he was ordained or promoted to the dignity of a doctor: it is said of R. Samuel (e), that

"when he died they put, "his key", and his writing book into his coffin, because he was not worthy of a son''

to succeed him:

ye entered not in yourselves; into the kingdom of heaven, the Gospel dispensation, neither receiving doctrines, nor submitting to its ordinances:

and them that were entering in ye hindered; by reproaching the miracles and ministry of Christ; by threatenings and excommunications; See Gill on Mat 23:13.

(c) Targum in Ruth i, 1. (d) Zohar in Exod. fol. 46. 1. (e) Vid. Cameron. in loc.

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50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Ver. 50. See Mat 23:35.

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That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation. He looked on to his own bloody death; to the day of the last witness of Stephen and of James; to the long series of persecutions which his servants would ceaselessly suffer at the hands of the Jews; he looked on to the state of Israel growing worse and worse, till the day when the storm of Divine anger at last burst over Jerusalem, and overwhelmed the city and the temple and the nation. That terrible day came in less than forty years.

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The blood of all shall be required of this generation - That is, shall be visibly and terribly punished upon it.

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50. ἐκζητηθῇ. A Hellenistic verb used in the sense of the Latin exquiro.

ἐκχυννόμενον. Literally, ‘which is being poured out,’ i.e. which is being constantly shed.

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50. ἴνα ἐκζητηθῇ τὸ αἶμα. This is the Divinely ordered sequence. The verb is almost unknown in profane writings; and nowherse else in N.T. is it used of “demanding back, requiring as a debt.” Comp. 2Sa 4:11; Eze 3:18, Eze 3:20, 33:6, Eze 3:8, Gen 9:5, Gen 42:22.

τὸ ἐκκεχυμένον ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου. comp. Mat 25:34; Heb 4:3, Heb 4:9:26; Rev 13:8, Rev 17:8. The expression καταβολὴ κόσμου does not occur in LXX Comp. ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς (Psa 78:2).

ἐκκεχυμένον. This is the reading of B and a few cursives; but almost all other authorities have ἐκχυννόμενον, which may easily have come from Mt. The grammarians condemn ἐκχύνω, or ἐκχύννω (Aeolic) as a collateral form of ἐκχέω. It is used of bloodshed Act 22:20, and the pres. part., if genuine here, is very expressive: “the blood which is perpetually being shed.”

ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης. To be taken after ἐκζητηθῇ. The reference is specially to the destruction of Jerusalem (21:32).

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