flour.1 A strong expression. This appears to refer to the whole human race, which consists of three measures, having spread over the earth from the three sons of Noah.2
35. To faQtv, which was spoken) viz. Ps. Ixxviii. 2 — dvoii-ca h KapafiotMTs TO ffro/^a. (tov, <f>&£y!*o/Aai <7pof3Xt)[j,ara acr dpyjfig, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter [things which have been] problems from the beginning. — Kpopfjrou, prophet) who was the author of that psalm. The Spirit of Christ was in the prophets ; therefore the prophets could, after their manner, predicate of themselves those things which were afterwards most richly fulfilled in Christ. — avoi^u, I will open) which before had not been done. — iptv^opai, I will utter) in Hebrew njTQK, / will pour out, which the LXX. elsewhere render epevyopai in Ps. xix. 8, and
in Ps. cxix. 171, and cxlv. 7. Hesychius renders by ai/a/3a>.Xs/, throws up, i.e. as a spring does water. He also renders spevysro by ifipvxtro, roared, sfBpvtv, icas overflowing with ; but (Spv^tiv is said of the noise of the floods, and the roaring of the lion. Therefore the verb ipsvyo/^ai denotes a gushing spring, which resounds by reason of the abundance and impetu osity of its waters ; whence the LXX. put eptvytsdcti also for JSC?, to roar. — xaraBo'kqs, foundation) It does not mean only the foundations, but also the building ; see 2 Mace. ii. 29.
36. <t>pdffov, explain) The disciples, being teachable, ask for further instruction.
38. olroi, these) Of whom most account is taken ; or especially the disciples then present. — rot <*ovripo\J, of the wicked one) The word is in the masculine gender.
39. 'Svvr'iXtia, — fiyyt'koi, consummation — angels) They form the predicate here, the subject elsewhere. — ffuvreXtia in ver. 49, is the meeting or combination of the ends (ruv «>>WK) ; see 1 Cor. x. 11.
41. Ai/roD, His — Alro\j, His) Such is the majesty of the Son of Man. His are the angels (see the end of ver. 39) ; His is the
1 A little leaven, as in evil, Gal. v. 9, so in good lepvens the whole mass. -V. g.
2 This conjecture will not be thought ridiculous by him, who remembers that there may be not merely one reason for a particular circumstance or expression (as the reason already given in the note above on a on on? let,, which see), but several reasons. — E. B.