L'74 ST MATTHEW XII, 83--3fi.
neither — neither, etc.) i.e., he shall in both drain to the dregs the most sure and most grievous punishment. See Chrysostom on this passage.
33. Kai, and) Understand again •Km^eart, make; resolving the imperative into the future. — xaAsv, good) The Jews wished to be a good tree with bad fruit, though they plainly knew it to be contrary to the truth.
34. Tq$ xapdiag, ro dropa, of the heart, the mouth) See ch. xv. 18 ; Rom. x. 9 ; 2 Cor. iv. 13.
35. Qrjffavpou, treasure) There is truly treasure and hidden abundance in every man.1 — ra aya&a — xovripa, the good things, evil things) The article has frequently a relative value : I have therefore sometimes thought that it was on that account added to aya&a, good things, as being already mentioned in ver. 34, and not to Kovqpa, which does not there occur. But many have either written or omitted the article too promiscuously.2 The ancient Cambridge MS. has aya.8a without an article.3
36. 'PJj^a, word) A nominative absolute, as in Luke xxi. 6 ; John xvii. 2 ; Acts vii. 40 ; Rev. iii. 12, 21, and in the S. V. of Ps. xvii. (xviii.) 31. — ap-ybv, idle) not only evil. Goodness of
1 This word treasure, which plainly implies abundance, proves that also in the preceding ver. the word v'hvipap.ct is not to be too readily understood
&s fulness (Germ. Ucherfluss) : although in its own proper place it maybe understood, by a Hebraism, simply as a thing contained, sV-2- Luther himself does not translate it Was im Herzen ist, ivhat is in the heart, but, Wess das Herz VOLL ist, that with which the heart is FULL. Comp. Luke vi. 45, where Swctvpo; is explained by rtfurtvfta. See Ernesti Neueste Theol. Bibl. T. i., p. 809.— E. B.
2 See f. n. on Maestricht's twenty-second Canon, quoted in Section ix. of the Author's Preface.— (I. B.)
3 In his App. Grit, in loc. Bengel writes —
" 'ret ante 7roi/rtpai) Er. Bas. ot.fi.y., etc., ret Comp. Aug. 2 Byz. Par. 6, vel plures ; Chrys. Articulus in priore colo lectus, in altero non lectus, medium: et articulus sa3pe vim relativam habet : ideo ad roi dyctdoi. versu 34 laudata, non ad vovr,p», ibidem non memorata, adhiberi, aliquando mihi visus est, unde alii bis, alii ne semel quidem, alii posteriore tantum loco scribendurn putarint Sed nimis promiscue, etc.," as in Gnomon. — (I. B.)
In the margin of Ed. 2, and in Vers. Germ., the article roi is omitted. — E B.
BD omits roi, before dyccSx. Perhaps the T» of Rec. Text crept in from the ro d-yxQov of Luke vi. 35, through the Harmonies. LA read also ret But the primary authorities oppose this reading. — ED.