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16 aThen He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,  
17 and asent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’  
18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’
19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’
20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
21 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the1 maimed and the lame and the blind.’  
22 And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’
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Luke 14:18

With one consent (apo miav). Some feminine substantive like gnwmhv or yuxhv has to be supplied. This precise idiom occurs nowhere else. It looked like a conspiracy for each one in his turn did the same thing.

To make excuse (paraiteisqai). This common Greek verb is used in various ways, to ask something from one (Mark 15:6), to deprecate or ask to avert (Hebrews 12:19), to refuse or decline (Acts 25:11), to shun or to avoid (II Timothy 2:23), to beg pardon or to make excuses for not doing or to beg (Luke 14:18 ff.). All these ideas are variations of aitew, to ask in the middle voice with para in composition.

The first (o prwtov). In order of time. There are three of the "many" ("all"), whose excuses are given, each more flimsy than the other.

I must needs (exw anagkhn). I have necessity. The land would still be there, a strange "necessity."

Have me excused (exe me parhthmenon). An unusual idiom somewhat like the English perfect with the auxiliary "have" and the modern Greek idiom with exw, but certainly not here a Greek periphrasis for parhthso. This perfect passive participle is predicate and agrees with me. See a like idiom in Mark 3:1; Luke 12:19 (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 902f.). The Latin had a similar idiom, habe me excusatum. Same language in verse Luke 14:19.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 14:18:

Matthew 22:1
Luke 14:16
Luke 14:18
Luke 14:23
Acts 25:11
1 Timothy 4:7
Hebrews 12:19
Jude 1:3

 

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