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Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Luke 21:34-36

General exhortation to watchfulness, peculiar to Lk.; each evangelist having his own epilogue. ἐν κραιπάλῃ καὶ μέθῃ : this seems to be a phrase similar to ἠχοῦς καὶ σάλου sound and wave for sounding wave (Luke 21:25) = in headache (from yesterday's intoxication) and drunkenness, for: in drunkenness which causes headache and stupidity. Pricaeus denies that κραιπάλη (here only in N.T.) means yesterday's debauch (χθεσινὴ μέθη), and takes it = ἀδηφαγία, gluttony. That is what we expect certainly. The warning he understands figuratively. So also Bleek. μερίμναις βιωτικαῖς, cares of life, “what shall we eat, drink?” etc. (Luke 12:22).

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