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5. πορεύσεται πρὸς αὐτὸν μεσονυκτίου. Orientals often travel at night to avoid the heat. Although idle repetitions in prayer are forbidden, persistency and importunity in prayer—wrestling with God, and not letting Him go until He has blessed us—are here distinctly taught (see Luk 18:1-8), as they also were in the acted parable of our Lord’s apparent repulse of the Syro-Phoenician woman, Mat 15:27-28.
καὶ εἴπῃ. This is a sort of deliberative subjunctive following the future, which is also found sometimes in classical Greek, and is frequent in Homer.
τρεῖς ἄρτους. It would be a mistake to press the mere detail into allegorical inferences. It merely represents what the man requires (Luk 11:8).