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Luk 13:4. Ἢ, or) From the Galileans He passes in His discourse, inasmuch as His departure from Galilee was close at hand, to the people of Jerusalem; comp. Luk 13:33. He passes from slaughter inflicted by men to a casualty, which might seem to have happened by chance.-οἱ δέκα καὶ ὀκτὼ, those eighteen) A profound and mysterious judgment in the case of the deaths of so many joined together.-ὀφειλέται, debtors[129]) Comp. Luk 13:34.-ΚΑΤΟΙΚΟῦΝΤΑς ἘΝ ἸΕΡΟΥΣΑΛῊΜ) So the LXX. In Jerusalem, a city in other respects esteemed “the holy city.”
[129] ‘Sinners’, Mat 18:24, and above, ch. Luk 11:4-ED. and TRANSL.