Luk 18:7-8 | RWP | e4.org | And he is longsuffering ( μακροθυμε ). This present active indicative comes in awkwardly after the aorist subjunctive ποιηση after ου μη , but this part of the question is positive. Probably κα here means "and yet" as so often ( ; , etc.). God delays taking vengeance on behalf of his people, not through indifference, but through patient forbearance.

‏ Luke 18:7-8

And he is longsuffering ( μακροθυμε ). This present active indicative comes in awkwardly after the aorist subjunctive ποιηση after ου μη, but this part of the question is positive. Probably κα here means "and yet" as so often (Joh 9:30; 16:32, etc.). God delays taking vengeance on behalf of his people, not through indifference, but through patient forbearance.

Howbeit ( πλην ). It is not clear whether this sentence is also a question or a positive statement. There is no way to decide. Either will make sense though not quite the same sense. The use of αρα before ευρησε seems to indicate a question expecting a negative answer as in Ac 8:30; Ro 14:19. But here αρα comes in the middle of the sentence instead of near the beginning, an unusual position for either inferential αρα or interrogative αρα. On the whole the interrogative αρα is probably correct, meaning to question if the Son will find a persistence of faith like that of the widow.