Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Matthew 7:23

ὁμολογεῖν. Properly to ‘agree,’ ‘admit’: in late Greek to ‘assert,’ ‘affirm.’

οὐδέποτε ἔγνων. ‘Never recognised you as being my disciples, with my name on your lips your heart was far from me.’ Each false claim is answered by the Judge. As prophets he does not recognise them. He bids the false casters-forth of demons begone as though they themselves were demons,—the workers of δυνάμεις were really workers of ἀνομία. Comp. Clem. Ep. II. loc. cit. above: εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος ἐὰν ἦτε μετʼ ἐμοῦ συνηγμένοι ἐν τῷ κολπῷ μου καὶ μὴ ποιῆτε τὰς ἐντολάς μου�· ὑπάγετε�ʼ ἐμοῦ, οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς πόθεν ἐστέ, ἐργάται�.

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Matthew 7:23

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