34. 'H avpiov, x.r.A., the morrow, etc.) A precept remarkable for Asteismus,1 by which care, though apparently permitted on the morrow, is in fact forbidden altogether ; for the careful make present cares even of those which are future, wherefore, to put off care is almost the same as to lay it aside. There is also a personification of the morrow (cf. Ps. xix. 2) : " the day" says our Lord, (not you} " shall take care" He who has learnt this, will contract his cares at length from the day to the present hour, or altogether unlearn them. — /jMptfMvqgu jaurjj,2 shall take care for itself) A Dativus Commodi* as in ver. 25, /*% ptpi^vart rri •4'f%?) — ILrfii rtjj ffupaTi, x.r.A., take no care for your LIFE — nor yet for your BODY, etc. — apxsrbv, sufficient) God indeed distributes our adversity and prosperity, through all the periods of our life, after a wonderful manner, so that they temper each other. — r\ x«x/'a, the evil) i.e. the sorrow; therefore there were no cares in the be ginning. — xax/a, though originally meaning badness (ivickedness), signifies here sorrow; just as the Hebrew 11B (ayadbg, good) means joyful in Prov. xv. 15. — aurJjs, thereof) Although it be not increased by the sorrow of either the past or the coining day.
1. MJ} Kpmrt, Judge not) i.e. without knowledge, charity, or necessity. Yet a dog is to be accounted a dog, and a swine a swine ; see ver. 6.
1 i.e. For skilfully conveying a stern truth in such a manner as not to repel, offend, or startle the hearer : in the original, " monitum mire dartiov." — (I. B.) See on Asteismus in the Append. — ED.
2 The Ed. Maj. regarded ictvTy as a less reliable reading than r» kavrfis. But Gnom. Ed. 1 (1742 A.D.) and Marg. Ed. 2, and Vers. Germ, prefer
fflfVTJ?. E. B.
Sollicitus erit sibi ipse. Vulg.
BGLa&c Vulg. Cypr. 210, 307, Hil. 635, read pfpiftv/iatt totvr^;. Rec. Text has TM, favTyf, evidently a correction to introduce the more usual con struction of ptpipvau with the accusative. — ED.
8 See explanation of Technical Terms. — (I. B.)