Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 12:46 - 12:46

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Shall cut him asunder (dichotomēsei). An old and somewhat rare word from dichotomos and that from dicha and temnō, to cut, to cut in two. Used literally here. In the N.T. only here and Mat 24:51.

With the unfaithful (meta tōn apistōn). Not here “the unbelieving” though that is a common meaning of apistos (a privative and pistos, from peithō), but the unreliable, the untrustworthy. Here Mat 24:51 has “with the hypocrites,” the same point. The parallel with Mat 24:43-51 ends here. Mat 24:51 adds the saying about the wailing and the gnashing of teeth. Clearly there Luke places the parable of the wise steward in this context while Matthew has it in the great eschatological discourse. Once again we must either think that Jesus repeated the parable or that one of the writers has misplaced it. Luke alone preserves what he gives in Luk 12:47, Luk 12:48.