Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 11:46 - 11:46

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Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 11:46 - 11:46


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Grievous to be borne (dusbastakta). A late word in lxx and Plutarch (dus and bastazō). Here alone in text of Westcott and Hort who reject it in Mat 23:4 where we have “heavy burdens” (phortia barea). In Gal 6:2 we have barē with a distinction drawn. Here we have phortizete (here only in the N.T. and Mat 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” (prospsauō, old verb but only here in the N.T.), touch with the view to remove. Mat 23:4 has kinēsai, to move. A physician would understand the meaning of prospauō for feeling gently a sore spot or the pulse.