consider the feelings1 of the writer, the force of the words, and the context. — r»j; <J>/X/VTOU, Philippi) Thus the inland Csesarea is distinguished from that on the sea-shore.2 — rha, whom) The disciples had profited by listening and inquiry; now their Master examines them by questioning, and gives an ex ample of catechising. — i-ov uibv ro\> 'Avtywirov, the Son of Man) i.e. Me, whom I myself am wont to call the Son of Man. Peter gives the right antitheton [in his reply3], ver. 16 : Thou art the Son of the living God. — Cf. John v. 19, 27. This title, the Son of Man, which frequently occurs in the Evangelists, should be care fully observed : no one was so called but Christ Himself, and no one, whilst He walked on earth, so called Him except Himself. He first applies this appellation to Himself in John i. 51, when they were first found who acknowledged Him as the Messiah and the Son of God (ibid. ver. 50), and thenceforth very fre quently, both before and after His prediction of His Passion. For they who expressed their faith in Him, called Him the Son of David, The Jews rightly suspected (John xii. 34), that by this title He claimed to be the Messiah. For as the first Adam, with all his progeny, is called Man, so the second Adam (see 1 Cor. xv. 45) is called Son of Man, not with that notion with which DTK Via (filii hominis), i.e. the weak, are opposed to tJ*K ^a (filii viri), i.e. the powerful (in Ps. xlix. (xlviii.) 2) ; or that in which men are called generally, sons of men (filii homi- num), as in Mark iii. 28 ; Eph. iii. 5 ; Ezek. ii. 1, etc. ; but with the article, 6 0/05 rot 'AvSpuxov. The article appears to refer to the prophecy of Daniel, vii. 13. This, in sooth, is that One Man whom Adam, after the fall, expected by promise for his whole race : 6 dtunpoc, the second (1 Cor. xv. 47), to whom every pro-
1 Affectus. See Author's Preface, Sect, xv., and Translator's foot-notes in loc.— (I. B.)
2 Csesarea Philippi, previously called Paneas, was enlarged and adorned by the Tetrarch Philip, who gave it the name of Csesarea in honour of the Emperor Tiberias, adding the cognomen Philippi to distinguish it from the great Csesarea, the Roman metropolis of Judea. For further particulars, see Kitto's Scripture Lands, and Lewin's Life and Writings of St Paul. -(I. B.)
3 In the original, " Petrus antitheton tangit," — literally, "Peter touches the antitheton," a metaphorical expression apparently derived from shooting at a target— (I. B.)