2. 'EXEA; there) In many places a number of cures were per formed at once by our Lord.
3.1 riaffav, every) They wished to elicit from our Lord a uni versal negative, which they thought would be contrary to Moses.
4. 'O ffoiqffas, He who made) sc. them ; with this construction, He icho made them in the beginning, made them male and female. o To/^tfaj, ivo!r,(Kv (lie who made, made), is a striking example of Ploce.2 — a-rr apx?);, at the beginning) In every discussion or inter pretation recourse should be had to the origin of a Divine insti tution ; see ver. 8 and Acts xv. 7.
5. E^TSV, said) sc. GOD, by Adam. — evexev TOVTOV, for this cause. In wedlock, the bond is natural and moral. — xaraXs/'-vJ/s/, x.r.X., shall leave, etc.) Therefore already at that time the same woman could not be both wife and mother of the same man. Such is the commencement of the prohibited degrees. The conjugal relation, to which alone the paternal and maternal yield, is the closest of all ties. - tar'spa, father) Although neither Adam had yet become a father, nor Eve a mother. — r»j yvvaixi a-iroD, to his wife) and thus also the wife to her husband. The husband is the head of the family. — taovrai, shall be) one flesh while they are in the flesh. — oi 5io, the two5) Thus also Mark x. 8 ; 1 Cor. vi. 16; Eph. v. 31; the Samaritan4
Ti; etvTov, tempting Him) At the beginning of His career, His adversaries questioned the Saviour concerning several of the acts committed either by Himself or His disciples. But when He had left nothing still re maining to be done for the defence of His own cause and that of His fol lowers, they thenceforth refrained from objections and interrogatories of that kind, and the more for that very reason heaped upon Him general questions, unconnected with any immediate act of His, it being their purpose thereby to surprise Him when off His guard and unprepared. — Harm., p. 422.
2 See Explanation of Technical Terms in Appendix. — (I. B.)
3 E. V. "They twain."— (I B.)
4 The Samaritans reject all the Sacred Books of the Jews, except the Pen tateuch. Of this they preserve copies in the ancient Hebrew characters ; which, as there has been no friendly intercourse between them and the Jews since the Babylonish captivity, must unquestionably be the same that were in use before that event, though subject to such variations as are always occasioned by frequent transcribing. Although the Samaritan Pentateuch was known to and cited by Eusebius, Cyril of Alexandria, Procopius of Gaza, Diodorns of Tarsus, Jerome, Syncellus, and other ancient Fathers, it