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41. ἀναστήσονται κ.τ.λ., ‘Shall stand up in the judgment, (i.e. in the day of judgment) beside.’ When on the day of judgment the Ninevites stand side by side with the men of that generation, they will by their penitence condemn the impenitent Jews.
εἰς τὸ κήρυγμα. Cp. εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων, Act 7:53. In both instances εἰς appears to be equivalent to ἐν. The two prepositions were originally identical in form and meaning -ενς. In proof of this cp. ἄμειψεν ἐν κοιλόπεδον νάπος θεοῦ. Pind. Pyth. Mat 12:37. In later Greek the two forms are interchanged: ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρός, Joh 1:18. ἵνʼ αὐτὸ λούσῃ εἰς σκάφην, Epict. III. 22, 71. On the other hand, ἐν for εἰς, as ἐπιστρέψαι ἀπειθεῖς ἐν φρονήσει δικαίων, Luk 1:17. ἀπελθεῖν ἐν βαλανείῳ, Epict. I. 11, 32. See Donaldson’s Greek Grammar, p. 510. Clyde’s Greek Syntax, § 83, obs. 4.