Luke 3:20

ἐπὶ πᾶσι, added this also to all his misdeeds, and above all the crowning iniquity, and yet Lk. forbears to mention the damning sin of Herod, the beheading of the Baptist, contenting himself with noting the imprisonment. He either assumes knowledge of the horrid tale, or shrinks from it as too gruesome. κατέκλεισε : instead of the infinitive; the paratactic style savours of Hebrew, and suggests a Hebrew source (Godet).