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Sell that ye have (Pōlēsate ta huparchonta humōn). Not in Matthew. Did Jesus mean this literally and always? Luke has been charged with Ebionism, but Jesus does not condemn property as inherently sinful. “The attempt to keep the letter of the rule here given (Act 2:44, Act 2:45) had disastrous effects on the church of Jerusalem, which speedily became a church of paupers, constantly in need of alms (Rom 15:25, Rom 15:26; 1Co 16:3; 2Co 8:4; 2Co 9:1)” (Plummer).
Purses which wax not old (ballantia mē palaioumena). So already ballantion in Luk 10:4. Late verb palaioō from palaios, old, to make old, declare old as in Heb 8:13, is passive to become old as here and Heb 1:11.
That faileth not (anekleipton). Verbal from a privative and ekleipō, to fail. Late word in Diodorus and Plutarch. Only here in the N.T. or lxx, but in papyri. “I prefer to believe that even Luke sees in the words not a mechanical rule, but a law for the spirit” (Bruce).
Draweth near (eggizei). Instead of Mat 6:19 “dig through and steal.”
Destroyeth (diaphtheirei). Instead of “doth consume” in Mat 6:19.