Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 9:47

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 9:47 - 9:47

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47. εἰδώς. He asked the subject of their dispute, and when shame kept them silent, He sat down, and calling a little child, made the Twelve stand around while He taught this solemn lesson.

παιδίου. This could not have been the future martyr St Ignatius, as legend says (Niceph. II. 3), probably by an erroneous inference from his name of Christophoros or Theophoros, which was derived from his telling Trajan that he carried God in his heart (see Ep. ad Smyrn. III. which is of very doubtful genuineness, and Eus. H. E. III. 38).