οὐ πλανᾶσθε, do ye not err? not weaker but stronger than a positive assertion: “pro vehementi affirmatione,” Grotius. διὰ τοῦτο usually refers to something going before, and it may do so here, pointing to their question as involving ignorant presuppositions regarding the future state, an ignorance due, in turn, to ignorance of Scripture teaching and the power of God. But it is more natural to connect it with the following clause, as in cases when the expression precedes ὅτι, ἵνα, ὅταν, etc., for μὴ εἰδότες is = ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε. So De Wette and others, vide Winer, sec. xxiii. 5.

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