Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 11:11 - 11:11

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 11:11 - 11:11


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11. τὸν πατέρα. ‘Whom of you as a father?’

μὴ … ἐπιδώσει. The construction is an anakoluthon, as though the sentence had begun ‘If the son of any of you, &c.’ The word ἐπιδώσει means ‘Will he go out of his way to give him?’—i.e. will he venture to give him? The son asks for bread, fish, &c., and the father gives something which looks like the thing asked for but is useless and pernicious.