Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Luke 17:1

τοῦ τὰ σκάνδαλα μὴ ἐλθεῖν. אBLX.

1. ἀνένδεκτόν ἐστιν. In the present condition of the world it is morally impossible. The οὐχ ἐνδέχεται of the Rec[306] is a more common phrase. The nearest approach to the word is ἔνδεκτον in Apollonius.

[306] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

τοῦ μὴ ἐλθεῖν. Some MSS. omit the τοῦ. If genuine it seems to depend on the notion of distance or exclusion involved in ἀνένδεκτον. Comp. κατεῖχον αὐτὸν τοῦ μὴ πορεύεσθαι, Luke 4:42; Luke 24:16; Acts 14:18.

σκάνδαλα. See on Luke 7:23. While the world remains what it is, some will always set snares and stumblingblocks in the path of their brethren, and some will always fall over them, and some will make them for themselves (1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Peter 2:8).

οὐαὶ δὲ δι' οὗ ἔρχεται. No moral necessity, no predestined certainty, removes the responsibility for individual guilt.

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