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45. τις τῶν νομικῶν. See on Luk 7:30, Luk 10:25. This Scribe thought that Jesus could not possibly mean to reflect on the honoured class who copied and expounded the Law.
καὶ ἡμᾶς ὑβρίζεις. ‘Thou insultest even us,’ who are superior to ordinary Pharisees. The word is a strong and an unjust one. Anything like ὕβρις was utterly alien to the words and the spirit of Christ. Had the lawyer said ὀνειδίζεις he would have spoken accurately; but just reproach is not insult. There was a difference between Pharisees and lawyers; the position of the latter involved more culture and distinction. They were the ‘divines,’ the ‘theologians’ of that day. Hence the man’s reproach. ‘Lawyer’ and ‘scribe’ seem to be more or less convertible terms (Luk 11:52-53; Mat 23:13). Jesus here charges them with tyrannical insincerity (46), persecuting rancour (47–51), and theological arrogance and exclusiveness (52).