Luk 14:18 | RWP | e4.org | With one consent ( απο μιας ). Some feminine substantive like γνωμης or ψυχης has to be supplied. This precise idiom occurs nowhere else. It looked like a conspiracy for each one in his turn did the same thing. To make excuse ( παραιτεισθα ). This common Greek verb is used in various ways, to ask something from one ( ), to deprecate or ask to avert ( ), to refuse or decline ( ), to shun or to avoid ( ), to beg pardon or to make excuses for not doing or to beg ( .). All these ideas are variations of αιτεω , to ask in the middle voice with παρα in composition. The first ( ο πρωτος ). In order of time. There are three of the "many" ("all"), whose excuses are given, each more flimsy than the other. I must needs ( εχω αναγκην ). I have necessity. The land would still be there, a strange "necessity." Have me excused ( εχε με παρηιτημενον ). An unusual idiom somewhat like the English perfect with the auxiliary "have" and the modern Greek idiom with εχω , but certainly not here a Greek periphrasis for παρηιτησο . This perfect passive participle is predicate and agrees with με . See a like idiom in ; (Robertson, Grammar , pp. 902f.). The Latin had a similar idiom, habe me excusatum . Same language in verse .

‏ Luke 14:18

With one consent ( απο μιας ). Some feminine substantive like γνωμης or ψυχης has to be supplied. This precise idiom occurs nowhere else. It looked like a conspiracy for each one in his turn did the same thing.

To make excuse ( παραιτεισθα ). This common Greek verb is used in various ways, to ask something from one (Mr 15:6), to deprecate or ask to avert (Heb 12:19), to refuse or decline (Ac 25:11), to shun or to avoid (2Ti 2:23), to beg pardon or to make excuses for not doing or to beg (Lu 14:18ff.). All these ideas are variations of αιτεω, to ask in the middle voice with παρα in composition.

The first ( ο πρωτος ). In order of time. There are three of the "many" ("all"), whose excuses are given, each more flimsy than the other.

I must needs ( εχω αναγκην ). I have necessity. The land would still be there, a strange "necessity."

Have me excused ( εχε με παρηιτημενον ). An unusual idiom somewhat like the English perfect with the auxiliary "have" and the modern Greek idiom with εχω, but certainly not here a Greek periphrasis for παρηιτησο. This perfect passive participle is predicate and agrees with με. See a like idiom in Mr 3:1; Lu 12:19 (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 902f.). The Latin had a similar idiom, habe me excusatum. Same language in verse 19.