Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Luke 11:11

τίνα δὲ : δὲ introduces a new parabolic saying: which of you, as a father, shall his son ask? etc. In the T.R. Lk. gives three examples of possible requests Mt.'s two: a loaf, and a fish, and a third, an egg. Cod. B omits the first (W.H [103] put it on the margin). ᾠόν, σκορπίον : in the two first instances there is resemblance between the thing asked and supposed to be given: loaf and stone, fish and serpent; in Lk.'s third instance also, the σκορπίος being a little round lobster-like animal, lurking in stone walls, with a sting in its tail. The gift of things similar but so different would be cruel mockery of which almost no father would be capable. Hens were not known in ancient Israel. Probably the Jews brought them from Babylon, after which eggs would form part of ordinary food (Benziger, Heb. Arch., p. 94).

[103] Westcott and Hort.

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