Luke 12:33

counsels a heroic mood for which apprehension as to future temporal want has become an impossibility, such want being now viewed as a means of ensuring the one object of desire, eternal riches. πωλήσατε, etc.: the special counsel to the man in quest of eternal life generalised (cf. Luke 18:22). βαλάντια, purses: continens pro contento (De Wette). παλαιούμενα : in Hebrews 8:13 applied to the Sinaitic covenant. Covenants, religions, wax old as well as purses. ἀνέκλειπτον, unfailing. Cf. ἐκλίπῃ, Luke 16:9, in reference to death: “vox rara, sed paris elegantiae cum altera ἀνεκλιπὴς, quam adhibet auctor libri Sapient., vii. 4, viii. 18, ubi habes θησαυρὸς ἀνεκλιπὴς et πλοῦτος ἀνεκλιπής,” Wolf. There is poetry in this verse, but also some think asceticism, turning the poetry of Jesus into ecclesiastical prose. I prefer to believe that even Lk. sees in the words not a mechanical rule, but a law for the spirit.