02_Feník Lapko_498-524_498-524 10/12/15 10:15 Pagina 515 515 ANNUNCIATIONS TO MARY IN LUKE 1–2 515 about him again, this time by Simeon — and his message provokes astonishment in her. In his two-tier rendition of Simeon’s disclosure the evangelist ac- centuates Jesus’ mother as the addressee in 2,34-35. The accusative construction pro.j Maria.m th.n mhte,ra auvtou/ following after the verb ei=pen with Simeon as the subject stresses the fact that the ensuing segment of the speech is addressed to the mother (even though she overheard the previous part, too). Annunciation to Mary continues to unfold. Simeon introduces the second segment of his annunciation by focusing first on the child; he draws attention to it by employing ou-toj preceded by the marker ivdou,. The child is then the grammatical subject of kei/tai which is supplemented by two parallel constructions eivj ptw/sin kai. avna,stasin pollw/n evn tw/| VIsrah,l and eivj shmei/on avntilego,menon and rounded out — after the aside pertaining not to ou-toj but to Mary in 2,35a — by the purpose clause o[pwj a'n avpokalufqw/sin evk pollw/n kardiw/n dialogismoi, in 2,35b. Resuming the Israel-oriented coloring of previous announce- ments, the second segment of Simeon’s annunciation modifies it substantially by commencing with an enigmatic report that Jesus is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel. The statement generates a remarkable twist in the positively phrased Jesus-Israel relation delineated in the first two announcements. While the pair- ing of ptw/sij and avna,stasij in conjunction with pollw/n evn tw/| VIsrah,l may be — and sometimes is — read consecutively as re- ferring to a two-phase fate of a single group that falls first and then rises 32, most contemporary scholars understand the sentence as in- volving two contrasted groups — and therefore a split in Israel so palpably seen in the ensuing narrative of the gospel 33. Hinting at public consequences of Jesus’ appearance, Simeon affirms that there will be in Israel those who fall and those who rise because of 32 See KOET, “Simeons Worte”, 1557-1569. Recently, SCHAEFER, Die Zukunft Israels bei Lukas, 326-329, and DILLON, The Hymns of Saint Luke, 134, espouse this alternative. 33 For example, BOVON, Luke 1,104; BROWN, The Birth of the Messiah, 461; S. BUTTICAZ, “Lk 1–2: Auftakt einer tragischen Geschichte? Christliche Identität im Gespräch mit Israel”, Infancy Gospels. Stories and Identities (eds. C. CLIVAZ – A. DETTWILER ‒ L. DEVILLERS – E. NORELLI ‒ B. BERTHO) (WUNT 281; Tübingen 2011) 328-350, here 349; CARROLL, Luke, 79; COLERIDGE, The Birth of the Lukan Narrative, 174; FITZMYER, Luke, 422; J.B. GREEN, The Theology of the Gospel of Luke (NTT; Cambridge 1995) 70; L.T. JOHNSON,