Luke 11:12

“Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion etc.] Of which there are three sorts; some are terrestrial, or land scorpions, scorpions of the earth, a kind of serpents, very venomous and mischievous, to whom the wicked Jews are compared, (<260206>Ezekiel 2:6) and the locusts in (<660903>Revelation 9:3,5) others are airy, or flying scorpions, a sort of fowl; and others are sea scorpions; of the fish kind: it is not easy to say which of them is here meant. There is an herb which is called ˆynbrq[ f374, “the scorpion”: it leaves are like unto a scorpion, as the Jewish commentators say f375. This is observed with the same view as the former. By it may be meant here, either the fish…”

“See this explained in the notes at Matthew 7:7-11. Luke 11:12 “A scorpion” See the notes at Luke 10:19. Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. i. p. 379) says: “There is no imaginable likeness between an egg and the ordinary black scorpion of this country, neither in color nor size, nor, when the tail is extended, in shape; but old writers speak of a “white” scorpion, and such a one, with the tail folded up, as in specimens of fossil trilobites, would not look unlike a small egg. Perhaps the contrast, however, refers only to the different properties of the egg and the scorpion, which is sufficiently emphatic.” Pliny (“N. H.,” xi. 25) says that in Judea the scorpions are about the size of…”

“offer: Gr. give a scorpion: Luk 10:19; Eze 2:6; Rev 9:10 Luke 11:13”