adds His being betrayed into the hands of sinners ; the third, in ch. xx. 17—19, at length expresses His stripes, cross, etc. The first was nearer in point of time to the second, than the second to the third. — *y>scj3»ripttv, ap^ispsuv^ ypapfMtriwrj elders — chief priests — scribes) Three classes of those who ought to have led the people to the Messiah ; corresponding nearly to the Council of Justice, the Consistory, and the Theological Faculty of modern times. — eyspdqvKi, to be raised) He adds nothing yet of His ascension. By degrees, all further and later particulars are disclosed ; see ver. 27.
22. npoffhafioptvog, taking hold of) as if he had a right to do so. He acted with greater familiarity after his declaration of acknowledgment. Jesus however reduces him to his proper level ; cf. Luke ix. 28, 48, 49, 54, 55.— 6 iisrpof, Peter) The same mentioned in ver. 16.1 Reason endures more easily the general proposition concerning the person of Christ, than the word of the Cross. Sudden changes occur in Peter, in ver. 16, 22, and ch. xvii. 4. Thence he bears witness from experience to the truth, that we are preserved by the power of God (1 Pet. i. 5), not our own. — qp^aro, he began) He had received the other doctrines without making any objection. — iXeug 2o/, propitious unto Thee) sc. May God be. An abbreviated formulary. Thus in 1 Mac. ii. 21, we meet with /Aswg fip/v xara\i'fft7v vopov, God forbid that we should forsake the law. And thus the LXX. some times express the Hebrew rW>n-2
23. "T-rayg, depart) It is not your place to take hold of and rebuke Me. By how much the more He had declared Peter blessed, by so much the more does He now reprove him who was previously prepared by faith to digest the reproof, in order that He may both correct him and preserve the other disciples ; see ver. 24. — ocr/Vw Mou, behind Mes) out of My sight. He had commanded Satan to do the same ; see ch. iv. 10. — 2arav«, Satan)
1 There being thus afforded a remarkable specimen of how easy it is for one to stumble [to be offended with the humbling truths as to Christ] the more grievously [in proportion as one had the more boldly avowed the truth before]. — V. g.
3 As in 2 Sam. xx. 20.— (I. B.)
3 It becomes thee not to be My adviser, but My follower \o-xau Mow].
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