μακροθυμέω

makroqumevw makroqumevw,
makroquvmw; 1 aorist, imperative
makroquvmhson, participle
makroqumhvsa"; (from
makrovqumo", and this from
makrov" and
qumov"); to be of a long spirit, not to lose heart; hence,1. to persevere patiently and bravely (equivalent to
kartevrw, so Plutarch, de gen. Socrates c. 21, p. 593 f.; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 4, 11) in enduring misfortunes and troubles: absolutely, ; ; with the addition of
e{w" and a genitive of the desired event, ; with
ejpiv and a dative of the thing hoped for, ibid.; add, .2. "to be patient in bearing the offences and injuries of others; to be mild and slow in avenging; to be long-suffering, slow to anger, slow to punish" (for #a' &yrIa>h,, to defer anger, ): absolutely, ;
prov"
tina, ;
ejpiv with the dative of person (see
ejpiv, B. 2 a.
d.), , (here L Tr with the accusative, so Tr in 26; see
ejpiv, C. I. 2 g.
b!.); ; ; hence, spoken of God deferring the punishment of sin:
eij"
tina, toward one, (here L T Tr marginal reading
diav (which see B. II. 2 b. under the end));
ejpiv with the dative of person, ; in this difficult passage we shall neither preserve the constant usage of
makroquvmein (see just before) nor get a reasonable sense, unless we regard the words
ejp!
aujtoi'" as negligently (see
aujtov", II. 6) referring to the enemies of the
ejklektw'n, and translate
kaiv
makroqumw'n
ejp!
aujtoi'" even though he is long-suffering, indulgent, to them; -- this negligence being occasioned by the circumstance that Luke seems to represent Jesus as speaking with () in mind, where
ejp!
aujtoi'" must be referred to
ajnelehmovnwn. The reading (of L T Tr WH)
kaiv
makroqumei'
ejp!
aujtoi'"; by which
tov
makroquvmein is denied to God (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 55, 7) cannot be accepted, because the preceding parable certainly demands the notion of slowness on God's part in avenging the right; cf. DeWette at the passage; (but to this it is replied, that the denial of actual delay is not inconsistent with the assumption of apparent delay; cf. Meyer (edited by Weiss) at the passage).*