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Luk 18:2. Θεὸν-ἄνθρωπον, God-man) ‘Regard’ to one or other of these two, God or else man, is certainly wont to influence most men, and to restrain judges from injustice (Luk 18:6, “the unjust judge,” lit. “the judge of injustice,” ὁ κριτὴς τῆς ἀδικίας).-μὴ φοβούμενος) We are wont φοβεῖσθαι, to fear, the power of others; and ἐντρέπεσθαι, to have regard to, or reverence for, the estimation of others.[196]
[196] In the earlier age of pure Greek, ἐντρέπομαι was construed with the Genitive of the person; but from the age of Plutarch downwards, with the Accusative of the person.-E. and T.