lawful for me to touch the Corban. See L. Capellus1 on the Corban. Or else, to avoid the appearance of avarice, they ac tually offered to the Corban what was due to their parents ; as many persons give to the poor or to orphans those things which they grudge to others, which they extort from them, or deny them. — o sav, x.r.X., whatsoever thoumightest be profited by me — u<pikq&riS) thou mightest be profited) The priests used to say, P run11, It be useful to thee,2 when the people offered anything. — xa.1, and) This particle denotes the commencement of the apodosis.3 — ou i^ n^r,^ shall not honour) The decree of the Pharisees was, such an one shall be free from all obligation to wards father and mother. Our Lord, however, expresses this in words which bring out more clearly the unrighteousness of the Pharisees in opposition to the commandment of God.
6. Ka/, and thus) 5/a, on account of) The heart which is occu pied with traditions, has no room for the commandments of God.
7. Tlpospqrwfff, prophesied) i.e. foretold.
8. 'O Xaog OUT-OS, x.r.X., This people, etc.) In the S. V. of Is. XXIX. 13, it Stands thus, ey/ifyi Mo; 6 Xacs &uros sv rti ffr6[J,a.Ti
x.ai sv ToTg y^sfaeeiv alruv ri/j,ojff! Ms, ^ Be xapdia — diddazo^Tf fLaTa avdpufuv xai didaazaXia;, — This people draiveth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and they honour Me icith their lips : but their heart — teaching precepts and doctrines of men. — OUT-OS, this) The pronoun here implies contempt ; see 1 Cor. xiv. 21. — Mi, Me) sc. God, speaking by the mouth of Isaiah. — xapdla, heart) by the approach of which4 (cujus accessu) God is truly and fully wor shipped.5
9. Marjjv, in vain) How much vanity has there been in the
1 LUDOVICUS CAPELLUS was born at Sedan in 1586. He became a tbeo- logian and philologist of Saurnur, was a first-rate Hebrew scholar, and deeply versed in Rabbinical learning. His writings are very numerous. He died in 1658.— (I. B.)
2 Sc. "It (i.e. the offering) be profitable to thee." A form of benedic tion.— (I. B.)
3 By a Hebraism, which however is also found in Greek, ex. gr. Demos thenes de Cor., " Whosoever (when any one soever) shall say, etc. — then (*«<) he shall not (need not) honour," etc. — ED.
Compare a similar construction occurring Rev. ii. 24. — E. B.
* i.e. by the drawing nigh of which, as well as with the lips. — ED.
5 Most stress is indeed made to rest on the heart. See ver, 19. — V. g.