Pots (ecrav). Another of Mark’s Latin words, adapted from the Latin seatarius, a pint measure. Wyc., cruets. Tynd., Cruses.
Brazen vessels (yarxior). More literally, copper.
Tables («duwev). Omitted in some of the best manuscripts and texts, and by Rev. The A. V. is a mistranslation, the word meaning couches. If this belongs in the text, we cer- tainly cannot explain Bamticpovs as wmmersion.
6. Well (xara@s). Linely, beautifully. Ironical.
10. Honor. Wye. has worship. Compare his rendering of Matt. vi. 2, “That they be worshipped of men;” xiii. 57, “A prophet is not without worshzp but in his own country ;” and especially John xii. 26, “ If any man serve me, my Father shall worship him.”
Die the death (Javat@ texevtdtw). Lit., come to an end by death. See on Matt. xv. 4.
11. Corban. Mark only gives the original word, and then translates. See on Matt. xv. 5.
13. Making of none effect. Rev., making void. See on Matt. xv. 6.
Ye handed down. Note the past tense, identifying them for the moment with their forefathers. Compare Matt. xxiii. 35, Ye slew. Christ views the Jewish persecutors and bigots, ancient and modern, as a whole, actuated by one spirit, and ascribes to one section what was done by another.
Cx. VIL] MARK. 201 ae 17. The disciples. Matthew says Peter. There is no dis- crepancy. Peter spoke for the band.
18. So. So unintelligent as not to understand what [uttered to the crowd.
19. Draught (agedpava). Liddell and Scott give only one definition—a privy, cloaca ; and derive from pa, seat, breech, Jundament. Compare English stool. The word does not refer to a part of the body.
Purging all meats (xadap({ov mavta ta Bpwpata). Ac- cording to the A. V. these words are in apposition with draught : the draught which makes pure the whole of the food, since it is the place designed for receiving the impure excrements.
Christ was enforcing the truth that all defilement comes from within. This was in the face of the Rabbinic distinctions be- tween clean and unclean meats. Christ asserts that Levitical uncleanness, such as eating with unwashed hands, is of small importance compared with moral uncleanness. Peter, still under the influence of the old ideas, cannot understand the saying and asks an explanation (Matt. xv. 15), which Christ gives in vy. 18-23. The words purging all meats (Rev., mak- ing all meats clean) are not Christ’s, but the Evangelist’s, ex- plaining the bearing of Christ’s words ; and therefore the Rev. properly renders, this he said (italics), making all meats clean. This was the interpretation of Chrysostom, who says in his homily on Matthew: “ But Mark says that he said these things making all meats pure.” Canon Farrar refers to a passage cited from Gregory Thaumaturgus: “And the Saviour, who purifies all meats, says.” This rendering is significant in the light of Peter’s vision of the great sheet, and of the words, “ What God hath cleansed ” (éka9dpice), in which Peter prob- ably realized for the first time the import of the Lord’s words on this occasion. Canon Farrar remarks: “It is doubtless due to the fact that St. Peter, the informant of St. Mark, in writing his Gospel, and as the sole ultimate authority for this vision in the Acts, is the source of both narratives,—that
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we owe the leyenda circumstance that the two verbs, cleanse and profane (or defile), both in a peculiarly pregnant sense, are the two most prominent words in the narrative of both events” (“‘ Life and Work of Paul,” i., 276-7).
21. Evil Thoughts (Scaroysopoi of Kaxol). Thoughts, those which are evil. So Rev.,in margin. Thoughts that are evil. The word dvaroyiopo1, thoughts, does not in itself convey a bad sense ; and hence the addition of adjectives denoting evil, as here and James ii. 4. Radically, it carries the idea of discus- sion or debate, with an under-thought of suspicion or doubt, either with one’s own mind, as Luke v. 223; vi. 8; or with another, Luke ix. 46; Philip. ii. 14; Rom. xiv. 1.