rendered from Latin into Greek : on the other hand, the anti quity and celebrity of the Latin text is proved by the very mul titude and discrepancy of these Greek codices. The omission appears to have arisen from the carelessness so frequently mani fested by transcribers, where similar words recur : the facility with which the mistake may occur, appears from the fact that Gelenius, in his Latin version of Origen, omits this very clause [which undoubtedly exists in the original]. Athanasius more than once substitutes erspa.v for aXXjjn, as is at present the case with the Codex Colbertinus, and from which you may conjec ture, that another omission1 might soon be made by other transcribers.
Ou /j.rt riXsgqrt, ye shall not finish2} cf. TO,3 in 2 Chron. xxxi. 1. — rag cro'Xe/s, the cities) not to say, villages, of Israel. — Seever. 6. Our Lord tells them that there was no fear of their not having where to preach, and that they were not to remain long in one place, as they would have the opportunity of remaining longer in other places. — tug civ ?xS?j 6 'f'/bg ro\j av^pwwov, until the Son of Man be come) Concerning this coming, see ver. 7, and xi. I.4
25. 'O 6oDXoj, x.r.A., the servant^ etc.) i.e. /Va 6 5oDXo$ yivrirai tog 6 xvpios auroD, apxerbv avr& eeriv, that the servant be as his lord) is sufficient for him. An instance of Zeugma. — oixobesvorriv, master of the household5) Jesus was indeed the Master of a household,
that second city, flee into another, i.e. a third city." To avoid the need for this, I believe the reading aXAjjj/ for e-ripav arose. The shorter is generally preferable to the longer reading, as it was the tendency of transcribers to insert all added matter, lest their copy should be incomplete. — ED.
1 " hiatus," hiatus, gap. See Author's Preface viii. 14, and App. Crit. Part I. § xxii., obs. xxvii., etc. — (I. B.)
2 E. V. Ye shall nut have gone over. — (I. B.)
3 rt?:=— C1) To be completed, finished. — GESENIUS. — (I. B.)
* To wit, there is here meant that very advent, whereby, through His full presence, beneficence, and preaching, the preparatory announcement of His ambassadors in those days was, as it were, completed and fulfilled by Him, whom it behoved to come, to proclaim the Gospel, and to see that it was proclaimed by others, Matt. xi. 3, 5. In a similar manner, He commanded the Seventy disciples also to announce the approach of the divine kingdom, and followed up that announcement by His own very presence in those same places, Luke x. 1, 9. — Harm., p. 2.93.
8 In the original the word used is pater-familias, which is employed throughout the whole sentence.— (I. B.)