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8. ποιήσει τὴν ἐκδίκησιν αὐτῶν. Isa 63:4; Psa 9:12, “When He maketh inquisition for blood, He remembereth them, He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.” “Yet a little while,” Heb 10:37; 2Pe 3:8-9. The best comment on the Parable and our Lord’s explanation of it may be found in His own Discourses, John 14, 15.
ἐν τάχει. ‘Speedily,’ in reality (2Pe 3:8) though not in semblance.
ἆρα εὑρήσει τὴν πίστιν; ‘Shall He find this faith on the earth?’ So St Peter tells of scoffers in the last days who shall say “Where is the promise of His coming?” 2Pe 3:3-4; and before that day “the love of many shall wax cold,” Mat 24:12; 2Th 2:3. Even the faith of God’s elect will in the last days be sorely tried (Mat 24:22). Ἆρα is like the Latin num. Comp. Gal 2:17 ἆρα Χριστὸς ἁμαρτίας διάκονος;