39. AtuTipa, second) Corresponding with T^WTJ;, first. — o/^o/'a, like) sc. of that same character as contrasted with sacrifice ; see Mark xii. 33. The love of our neighbour resembles the love of God more than all the other duties, just as the moon resembles the sun more than the stars do : see Gen. i. The lawyer might easily omit the latter, whilst anxious about the former. Our Lord guards him from that danger, and answers more than he had asked. — we, as) sc. as thou lovest thyself. Self-love needs not to be enjoined separately. He who loves God will love himself in a proper degree without selfishness. God loves me as He does thee ; and thee as He does me : there fore I ought to love thee, my neighbour, as myself; and thou me as thyself: for our love to each other ought to correspond to God's love towards us both.
40. Kp'sfj,ara.i — xai o'i rtpoffirai,1 hangs2 — and the prophets. The Latin Codices have pendet, et prophetce — hangs, and the prophets: whence the Canterbury MS. has the reading xps^ara/ xai ol -rpo- ffirai. The question was concerning the law : the reply con cerns the law especially : see ver. 36, 40. The Anglo-Saxon version has not xal o! <xpo$rtrai ; and it might seem a gloss from ch. vii. 12, because the verb xptfActrai is in the singular number, and the disputed clause follows afterwards. The fathers, how ever, have it, including even Tertullian, if the copies of him are not corrupt. And again, the Anglo-Saxon version fre quently omits something which is found in the Latin. The matter requires further consideration. y.pi/j,ot,rai is an elegant verb. He who takes away either of these commandments, takes away the law.3
41. 'SvvqyfAinuv di rw 3>api<ra,tuv, but while the Pharisees were gathered together) sc. solemnly ; see ver. 34.
42. T7, /c.r.X., what ? etc.) You Pharisees, says our Lord, are always putting questions concerning commandments ; now I will propose to you something else, concerning which also it is writ-
1 E. M. reads x.ai oi vpo^ra.! x,piff.xvrcti. — (I. B.)
2 E. V. has "hang," which agrees with the reading of E. M.,q. v. supra. _(1. B.)
BDLZaic Vu!g. Syr. and Hil. read x.pip»r»t. Orig. 3. 981 b supports Rec. text, Kpipa.vru.i after ^po(fytrxi — ED.
s Which comprises so many commandments. — V. g. VOL. I. CO