{Within you} (entos hum(936e)). This is the obvious, and, as
I think, the necessary meaning of entos. The examples cited of
the use of entos in Xenophon and Plato where entos means
"among" do not bear that out when investigated. Field (_Ot.
Norv_.) "contends that there is no clear instance of entos in
the sense of among" (Bruce), and rightly so. What Jesus says to
the Pharisees is that they, as others, are to look for the
kingdom of God within themselves, not in outward displays and
supernatural manifestations. It is not a localized display "Here"
or "There." It is in this sense that in Lu 11:20 Jesus spoke of
the kingdom of God as "come upon you" (ephthasen eph' hum(8373)),
speaking to Pharisees. The only other instance of entos in the
N.T. ( Mt 23:26 ) necessarily means "within" ("the inside of the
cup"). There is, beside, the use of entos meaning "within" in
the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus saying of Jesus of the Third Century
(Deissmann, _Light from the Ancient East_, p. 426) which is
interesting: "The kingdom of heaven is within you" (entos hum(936e)
as here in Lu 17:21 ).
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