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Luk 18:1. Δὲ καὶ, moreover also) as regards the preparation for those things about to come to pass. Comp. Luk 18:8.-πρὸς τὸ) that is to say, as concerns that all-important subject, prayer.-πάντοτε, always) night and day; Luk 18:7.-προσεύχεσθαι, to pray) Two parables treat of prayer: the one here, in Luk 18:1, et seqq.; and the second in Luk 18:9, et seqq. The first teaches us to unlearn (overcome, lay aside) indolent faintness; the second, to unlearn confidence in ourselves: two extremes deserving to be noted. For the words, ἐγκακεῖν, to be faint or indolent, and πεποιθότας ἐφʼ ἑαυτοῖς, i.e. self-confidence, in a bad sense, are mutually opposed, Luk 18:1; Luk 18:9; even as confidence or trust, in a good sense, 2Co 3:4 (πεποίθησιν ἔχομεν διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν), and to faint, 2Co 4:1 (οὐκ ἐγκακοῦμεν), Eph. 3 12, 13, are mutually opposed.-μὴ ἐγκακεῖν,[195] not to faint) The cry of the elect (τῶν βοώντων), Luk 18:7, is in consonance with this not-fainting. An example in point occurs, Luk 18:39 [the blind man near Jericho].
[195] ABDLΔ so write the word; and not ἐκκακεῖν, as Rec. Text.-E. and T.