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NOTES A N D COMMENTS the Sermon in chapters 5-7 is unmistakably a compilation drawn up with care and a certain stylistic elegance, as can be seen from the use of rhyme, harmonious groupings, triads, Stichworter, paranomasia and so forth.1 Nowhere is this more in evidence than in the section which deals with the three basic acts of piety: alms-giving, prayer and fasting (6:l-18). These are presented in a perfectly symmetrical way by means of formulaic repetitions dear to the semitic prose writer : Introduction: in your alms-giving (praying, fasting ... ). Negative statement: what not to do, whom not to imitate. Positive statement: but when you give alms (pray, fast ... ). Conclusion: your father who sees in secret ... It becomes apparent at once that vv. 9-15 form a Zwischentext in this symmetrical arrangement,z added perhaps to the aramaic document to which tradition refers. Likewise, it could not be urged conclusivelythat Lk supplies the circumstances of time and place of the composition of this prayer. True, it takes place in the general framework of the last journey to Jerusalem (951; 9 5 7 ; 10:38, etc.) but the journey is evidently more theological than topographical and
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 1962
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