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Luk 11:36. Ὅλον φωτεινὸν-φωτεινὸν ὅλον, all full of light-full of light all over or wholly) An instance of Ploce [when the same word is twice employed, so as that in one instance the notion of the word itself simply, in the other an attribute of it, is understood]. The perfection of the parts [ὅλον in the first instance] tends to the perfection of degrees [ὅλον in the second instance: light wholly and perfectly in degree]. [Often two words are put in inverted order, in two successive clauses, in such a way, as that in each clause the word that stands first is to have the emphasis. Mat 24:33 (where see the note on the present passage), 34; Joh 8:21; Joh 8:24; Joh 14:1, et seqq.; 1Co 7:22; Gal 4:25; Eph 2:1; Eph 2:5; Php 2:7-8; Jam 2:18; Jam 2:22. The analogy of examples shows that this is no vain subtlety of hyper-criticism.-Not. Crit.]-ὁ λύχνος [a candle] the lamp) that lamp [candle] of which in Luk 11:33 He had spoken.-τῇ ἀστραπῇ) with its utmost degree of bright shining (brilliancy).