6. Have made of none effect (nxupdcare). Rev., made void ; a, not, Kdpos, authority. Ye have deprived it of its authority.
7. Well (xadrds). Admirably. 8. Is far (dméyer). Lit., holds off from me.
19. Out of the heart. Compare Plato. “For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates, as he declared, in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes; and therefore, if the head and body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul. That is the first thing” (“ Charmides,” 157),
Thoughts (Stadoyiopol). Lit., reasonings (compare Mark ix. 33, Rev.), or disputings (Philip. ii. 14), like the captious questioning of the Pharisees about washing hands.
21. Coasts (uépn). —Lit., and better, as Rev., parts.
22. Out of the same coasts (a6 ray oplov éxelvav). Lit., as Rev., from those borders jy te. she crossed from Pheenicia into Galilee.
Ca. XV.] MATTHEW. 89
Cried (éxpavyacev). With a loud, emportunate cry: from behind. Compare after, ver. 23. ;
Me. Making her daughter’s misery her own.
Grievously vexed with a devil (caxas Samoviterat). Lit, is badly demonized. Sir J. Cheke, very evil devilled.
23. Besought (poor). The verb is used of the asking of an equal from an equal (Luke xiv. 32), or from a familiar foot- ing. Hence of Christ asking from the Father (John xiv. 16); Airéw (see Acts xii, 20; iii. 2; Matt vii. 9), expresses the seek- ing of the inferior from the superior; as the beggar from the almsgiver, the child from the parent, man from God. Hence never used of Christ.
Send her away. With her request granted ; for, as Bengel exquisitely remarks, “Thus Christ was accustomed to send away.”
96. Children’s (ray réxvav). Bengel observes that while Christ spoke severely to the Jews, he spoke honorably of them to those without. Compare John iv. 22.
Dogs (xuvapious). Diminutive: little dogs. In ver. 27, Wye. renders the little whelps, and Tynd., in both verses, whelps. The picture is of a family meal, with the pet house-dogs run- ning round the table.
Their masters. The children are the masters of the little dogs. Compare Mark vii. 28, “the children’s crumbs.”
30, Cast them down (épupav). Very graphic. Lit., flung them down; not carelessly, but in haste, because so many were coming on the same errand.
32, | will not (ov 94). The A. V. might easily be muis- taken for the simple future of the verb send. But two verbs
90 WORD STUDIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. (Cu. XVI.
are used: the verb Zw expressing Jesus’ Seeling or disposi- toon. The Greek order is, and to send them away fasting Iam not willing. Therefore Rev. is better: Z would not.
Faint (€eavdIdow). Lit, be unstrung or relaxed.
34. Little fishes (?yIvéua). Diminutive. The disciples make their provision seem as small as possible. In ver. 36 the diminutive is not used.
35. On the ground (éi tH yh). Compare Mark viii. 6. On the occasion of feeding the five thousand, the multitude sat down on the grass (éri tovs xoptovs), Matt. xiv. 19. It was then the month of flowers. Compare Mark vi. 39, the green grass, and John vi. 10, much grass. On the present occasion, several weeks later, the grass would be burnt up, so that they would sit on the ground.
Gave thanks. According to the Jewish ordinance, the head of the house was to speak the blessing only if he himself shared in the meal; yet if they who sat down to it were not merely guests, but his children or his household, then he might speak it, even if he himself did not partake.
37. Baskets (omvpidas). See on Matt. xiv. 20.