Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 24:22

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 24:22 - 24:22

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 24:22 - 24:22

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22. εἰ μὴ ἐκολοβώθησαν κ.τ.λ. ‘Unless those days had been shortened.’ The event still future, is by the divine prescience looked upon as past. κολοβόω, lit. ‘to cut off,’ ‘mutilate’ (Aristotle and Polyb.), here ‘to abridge.’

Several circumstances concurred to shorten the duration of the siege, such as the scanty supply of provisions, the crowded state of the city, the internal dissensions, and the abandonment of important defences. So strong did the place seem to Titus that he exclaimed, ‘We have certainly had God on our side in this war; and it was God alone who ejected the Jews from these fortifications.’ Josephus VI. 9. 1.

οὐκ ἂν ἐσώθη πᾶσα σάρξ. In this construction οὐ coalesces with the verb, so that οὐκ ἐσώθη = ἀπώλετο: when οὐ is joined to πᾶς the meaning is ‘not every’ as οὐ πᾶς ὁ λέγων Κύριε Κύριε, εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν, ch. Mat 7:12.