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61. πρῶτον δὲ ἐπίτρεψόν μοι ἀποτάξασθαι τοῖς, κ.τ.λ. The incident and the allusion closely resemble the call of Elisha (1Ki 19:20). But the call of Jesus is more pressing and momentous than that of Elijah. “The East is calling thee, thou art looking to the West,” Aug. Neither Elijah nor Elisha is an adequate example for the duties of the Kingdom of Heaven, of which the least partaker is, in knowledge and in privileges, greater than they.
ἀποτάξασθαι. Vulg[211] renuntiari is used in this sense in Luk 14:33; Act 18:18; Act 18:21; 2Co 2:13; Mar 6:46.
[211] Vulg. Vulgate.
εἰς τὸν οἶκον. ‘Let me go to my house, and there bid farewell.’ This mixture of two constructions is a common form of breviloquentia. See Luk 11:7. The type of this idiom is Φίλιππος εὑρέθη εἰς Ἄζωτον, Act 8:40. See Winer, p. 516, and my Brief Greek Syntax, § 89.