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Luk 10:29. Θέλων, wishing) with a heart not broken or bruised into contrition: priding himself on his one right reply.-δικαιοῦν, to justify) They who ask many questions have no delight in doing many deeds of obedience, and prefer to exempt themselves by subterfuges from the obligations of the law. He who limits, by exceptions and qualifications, those duties which ought to be performed, and the persons to whom such just duties are to be performed, invents for himself a righteousness easy of attainment.-καὶ, and who) This particle approves of the immediately preceding speech of the Lord, and yet adds something to it: it has a wonderfully characteristic effect in expressing the ἦθος or feeling of the speaker.