found in ver. 10 ; in the present instance; however, it is our Heavenly Father who is spoken of; cf. ch. xvi. 17; John vi. 45 ; Acts x. 28 ; Gal. i. 1, 15 ; Eph. i. 9 ; Ps. xxv. 12, xxxii. 8. Therefore our Lord adds, but all ye are brethren, which principle applies also to the ninth verse, that we should neither ourselves be called masters, nor call any one on earth father. Christ is treated of in verse 10, and verse 11 is appropriately subjoined. Cf. concerning the Father as Teacher, and Christ as Guide, ch. xi. 25, 27. — iare, ye are) The indicative mood.1
9. Haripa, father) This also was the grand title given by the Jews to their teachers, especially in old age. — pq xa?J<r?;rg, X.T.A., do not call, etc.) Let not either your tongue or your mind as cribe infallibility to any man.
10. Ka^yjjra/, guides)2 i.e. leaders, authorities. There is a gradation in these phrases : Rabbi, Father, Guide. They were titles of spiritual eminence amongst the Jews. The same prin ciple is enforced in 1 Cor. iii. 5, 6.3
11. 'O 5s pei^uv, but he that is greatest) i.e. he who wishes to
2, Wheel. 1, et alii apud Erasmum et Bezam ; Orig. Chrysost. ad h. 1. et Homil. 77 in loh., Arab. Syr. Probat Beza, Grotius, Seldenus, nee non L. de Dieu, Rus.
" ^[ o X,o;trrof) edd. etc. Ex. v. 10 ( \ ) [i.e. for the omission], B<JIS. unus, y. opinor. Eph. Med. Vss. 1, duo apud Bezam, Aeih. Arab. Armen. Copt. Lot. (et inde Cant, quern tarn en Beza videtur inmiere, Colb. 8), Pers. Syr. Orig. Chrysostomus clare. Theophyl. in comm. Vid. Gnom."
Tishendorf, Lachmann, and Wordsworth read 8;§«<7x«Aoj, but they do not omit 6 XpuTTo;. — (I. B.)
'Upav o d/SacMcstXof is the reading of B ; "vester doctor," d; "vobis magistcr," Cypr. ; " magister vester," abc and Vulg. But v^u 6 KKdny/iTYig, D ; to which Rec. Text adds o Xpitrros. — ED.
Some one of the learned has supposed it more probable that the term x.oidYi'yqTYi;, as being one of less common occurrence, has been changed by transcribers into S;d«<7x«Ao;, rather than that §/S«<7x«Ao? has been substi tuted instead of xa^y^T^?. But the arguments drawn from solid criticism have more weight than such mere conjectures; not to mention that the other conjecture, by which x.ot,6fiyr,T^ is supposed to be transferred from ver. 10 (as to which there is no dispute), has at least as much show of probability. Cf. App. Grit. Ed. ii., p. 133.— E. B.
1 i.e. not the imperative, " Be ye," as it might be rendered. — (I. B.)
2 E. V. « Masters."— (I. B.)
8 In the original, "qua? destniitur etiam 1 Cor. iii. 5, s. ;" lit., " which [sc. spiritual eminence] is demolished also in 1 Cor. iii. 5, 6." — (I. B )