Verse 41
He will miserably destroy those wicked men - So, according to this evangelist, our Lord caused them to pass that sentence of destruction upon themselves which was literally executed about forty years after. But Luke relates it differently: according to him, they said μη γενοιτο , God forbid! The Codex Leicestrensis omits οι λεγουσιν , they say; so that the following words appear to be spoken by our Lord. Michaelis supposes that in the Hebrew original the word was ויאמר waiomer , he said; for which the Greek translator might have read ויאמרו waiomeru , they said.
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