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Luk_9:57-60. See on Mat_8:19-22, who has placed the incidents earlier. These little narratives circulated probably in general without definite historical arrangement. Arbitrarily enough, Lange[125] finds the three unnamed ones that follow, Luk_9:57; Luk_9:59; Luk_9:61, in Judas Iscariot, Thomas, and Matthew. According to Luke, they were assuredly none of the twelve (Luk_6:13 ff.).
πορευομένων αὐτῶν ] to wit, εἰς ἑτέραν κώμην , Luk_9:56.
ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ] is to be taken with what follows (Lachmann). If, as is usually the case, it were connected with πορ . αὐτ ., it would simply be useless.
ἀπελθόντι ] Case of attraction, Kühner, II. p. 344.
Luk_9:60. διάγγελλε κ . τ . λ .] announce everywhere ( διά , comp. Rom_9:17) the kingdom of God, the imminent establishment of the Messiah’s kingdom.
[125] He—just as arbitrarily, since the brief narratives omit all such details—represents the first as being of a sanguine, the second of a melancholic, the third of a phlegmatic temperament. See L. J. III. p. 424.