1. The Rev. inserts then after who, thus restoring the Greek dpa, which the A. VY. overlooks. Who then? Who, as things stand. Since one of our number has been doubly honored in being called “the rock,” and in being appointed to take part in a special miracle, who then is greatest ?
3. Be converted (atpadjre). The word converted has ac- quired a conventional religious sense which is fundamentally truthful, but the essential quality of which will be more appa- rent if we render literally, as Rev., except ye turn. The pict- ure is that of turning round in a road and facing the other way.
Shall! not enter (ov p17 eicéXSyTe). But the double nega- tive is very forcible, and is given in Rev. in nowise. So far from being greatest in the kingdom of heaven, ye shall not so much as ente?’.
4. As this little child. Not, as this little child hwmbles himself, but, shall make himself humble as this little child is lowly; shall willingly become by spiritual process what the child is by nature.
5. Inmy name (él 76 dvopart pov). Lit., wpon my name ; on the ground of, or onaccount of ; for my sake.
6. A millstone (uiros dvixds). Two kinds of millstones were in use; the one turned by hand, the other, and larger, by an ass (vos). Here Jesus says an ass-millstone ; or, as Rev., a great millstone ; Wyc., millstone of asses.
12: Leave upon the mountains. The text here is dis- puted. Both A. V. and Rev. follow a text which reads: “ Doth he not, leaving the ninety and nine, go into the moun-
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tains?” Rather join leave with on the mountains, and read, “Will he not leave the ninety and nine upon (éml, scattered over’) the mountains, and go,” etc. This also corresponds with adpyoet, leaving, letting out, or letting loose.
13. If so be (éav yévnras). If it should so come to pass. God’s grace is not irresistible.
14. The will of your Father (9éAnua eumrpooSev rod TAT POS iuav). Though some read my Father (uob). Lit., There is not a will before your (my) Father. So Wye., It és not will before your Father. Meyer paraphrases, There is not before the Jace of God any determination having as its object that one of these, ete.
15. Go (iraye). Do not wait for him to come to you.
Tell him his fault (2iey£ov). Rev., shew him. The verb means, first, to test, try, search out ; therefore, to cross-exanvine with a view of convincing or refuting; thence to rebuke or chide. The Rev. shew is better than tell, which implies merely naming the fault; whereas the injunction is, go and prove to him how he has erred. Wye., reprove, with snub as explanation.
16. In the mouth (éri oropuaros). Better Rev., “at the mouth,” or on the testimony of.
19. Shall agree (cupporicovew). From ovr, together, and povn, sound or voice. Transcribed in our word symphony. The word wnanimous expresses an inner concord, an agreement of mind, which is conveyed in the Greek Opodupadov ; pds, one and the same, and Jupéds, feeling, thought (Acts i. 14); but the word here translated agree has so far lost its distinctive character as a concord of voices as to be used for agreement in the deeper and more inward sense.
Concerning anything that they shall ask (wep mavtos TpayLaros ob €av aitnowvtas). The literal rendering is, if any-
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thing, stronger: Everything, whatever it be, for which they may have asked. Wye., Shall consent of everything whatever they shall ask. Tynd., Shall agree in any manner thing whatsoever they shall desire. The word mpayua, thing, is used like the Latin res; a matter, affair, business, with the meaning at bot- tom of something to be done, since it is cognate to the verb m™pdo- cw, todo. Shall be done, however, is yevijoeras, vt shall come to pass.