princes in Num. viii. 2, etc., and of apostles in Rev. xxi. 12, 14, corresponds with that of the tribes of Israel. — <pvha$, x.r.X., tribes, etc.) to which the apostles had, in the first instance, been sent.
29. Kcti vag, and every one) Not only apostles, to whom Peter's question ought not to have referred exclusively. See 2 Tim. iv. 8. — apr,xiv, hath relinquished) If the Lord so com mand (as in iv. 19), or thus guide by various means.— o/'x /'as, houses1) This is placed first; cf. concerning it, ver. 21, 27. — St Matthew, in the present instance, and St Mark, in x. 29, maintain the order of affection in the enumeration of relations, mentioning them by pairs in an ascending scale, lands being placed last ; whereas St Luke, in xviii. 29, follows the order of time. — % yuva/ka, or wife) i.e. without breaking the law of Moses ; see ver. 9. The singular number of this word (i.e. wife) should be remarked, as an argument against polygamy ; for those things of which there can be more than one, brothers, etc., are put in the plural number in this passage. In like manner in Mark x. 29, o/'x/'a, a house, is also put in the singular number. A man may, indeed, have more than one house, though such is the case of few ; but no one dwells in two at the same time, so as to be able to leave them both at once. — svsxev roD ov6fj,ar6$ MOV, on account of My name) sc. on account of confessing and preaching the name of Christ. — sxaTovTa^Xaglova, an hundredfold) i.e. of the same things which are enumerated in this verse ; cf. Mark x. 30. — Xij-4/gra/, shall receive) sc. in this life : for the future life is an hundredfold, nay, a thousandfold more productive in its returns ;
1 Beng., in his Appar. Grit, on this passage, p. 482, had considered the singular, oixixv, had been derived from the parallel passages in the other Gospels. Hence also in the Gnomon (Ed. ii., p. 128) he preferred the plural number. But in the smaller Ed. of N. T. Gr., A.D. 1753, he changed his opinion, and gave the superiority to the singular, oUtav, by appending the sign ft, and with this the Germ. Vers. of the passage subsequently corre sponds. In this view, the observation in the Gnomon which immediately follows, has the more force. — E. B.
Tischend. reads % oUietc after % dypoi>s, with CL Memph., MSS. of Vulg. Origen 1, 283c ; 3,689<z. Lachm., as Rec. Text, reads oUietg y before «SeX- tpoii; with BD. The oldest MS. of Vulg. (Amiatinus) reads the sing. ' domum,' and puts it before "vel fratres aut sorores." abed Hil. also read ' domum.' Irenaeus, " agros aut domos aut parentes (>j yovtlg) aut fratres aut filios." The »j oixiotii first in the enumeration is probably drawn from Mark viii. 29 and Luke xviii. 29. — ED.