Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 16:26 - 16:26

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 16:26 - 16:26


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26. χάσμα μέγα ἐστήρικται. This, as Meyer says, is the argument ex impossibili after the argument ex aequo. Change of place is not a possible way of producing change of soul. Dives while he still had the heart of Dives would have been in agony even in Abraham’s bosom. But 1Pe 3:19-20 throws a gleam of hope athwart this gulf. It may be (for we can pretend to no certainty) no longer impassable, since Christ died and went to preach to spirits in prison. With this “great gulf” (2Sa 18:17, LXX[303]) compare the interesting passage of Plato on the vain attempts of great criminals to climb out of their prisons. Rep. x. 14.

[303] LXX. Septuagint.

ὅπως … μὴ δύνωνται. ‘In order that they may not be able.’