37.
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Brought. Besides the meaning already suggested there is
also the significant fact that every one of the six LXX occurrences of this word
has a context of sexual irregularity.
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An alabaster box. The only other occurrence of this
word is in 2 Kgs. 21:3. Is there symbolic meaning here?: Jerusalem, refusing to
anoint Jesus as Messiah, is discarded.
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38.
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Her hair. Is there here an echo of Num. 5:18?
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39.
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What manner of woman, a word meaning: from what other
country. Its NT usage always implies something/somebody strange or
off-beat.
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40.
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Simon. There are 8 other Simons in the NT.
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41.
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Debtors. Consider Pr. 29:13 LXX: “When creditor
and debtor meet together, the Lord is overseer of them both”. See also Ps.
37:21, 22.
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42.
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Forgave them both. Could this parable have been spoken
with reference to the sabbath year (Dt. 15:1, 2 - the Lord’s
release)?
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45.
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Hath not ceased to kiss my feet. And Jesus did not bid
her desist!
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46.
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Anoint -- with oil. The rich used ointment, the poor
used oil, but this man neither.
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47.
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Her sins which are many. Here Jesus shows himself to be
no sentimentalist, but a realist facing facts.
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For. Misunderstood, this conjunction has been read as
meaning: ‘Because you love me, therefore I grant you
forgiveness’. But such a reading contradicts the parable. The idea is:
‘I can say this, because she loved much’.
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