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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Exegesis ekeinos de ho doulos ‘but that servant …’, referring forward to ho gnous, etc., and to be distinguished from the one to whom vv. 43, 45f refer. ho gnous to thelēma tou kuriou autou ‘who did know what his master wants’. thelēma ‘will’, i.e. what is willed, here of that which one wants to be brought about by somebody else, cp. A-G I c. kai mē hetoimasas ē poiēsas pros to thelēma autou ‘and who has not made preparations or acted according to what he wants’. autou refers
Luke 12:47–48a