are to understand the Spirit of Jesus as applying to His Divine nature, which had its dwelling in His human nature. — rl, why) An allusion to their Why ? in ver. 7.
14.1 TsAwv/oc, the receipt of custom) At the sea ; ver. 13.
15.2 *Hffav yap, for they were) The Evangelist hereby explains why he had just written, with Jesus and His disciples ; for they were many.
16.3 T/ on) So the LXX. ; Judg. xi. 7, etc.
18. Nriffrtvoyrts, fasting) This seems here to imply both their custom and their actual fasting at that present time ; comp. note on Matt. ix. 14.
20.* 'EXst/ffovra/, shall come) This is the first intimation of His Passion. — ev sKetvy ry ripepcf) So also the Gothic version reads. Moreover, the plural, which is substituted by some, comes evi dently from Luke.5 There is but one day of the Bridegroom being taken away ; many days, of His continuing absent after having been so taken away. But the days will come, ivhen the Bridegroom shall be taken away ; and then shall they fast in that day (In some one of those days, to wit, especially on the first of them). So in Luke xvii. 22 the plural number is used, the days shall come ; and in ver. 31, on that day, in the singular number, with a force having relation to that plural.
21. A'/pft TO •rXjjfw/jt.a TO xaivbv roD aaXa/oS) This reading is a mean between extremes, brief, and likely to be genuine.6 The
1 Comp. on this history, note on Matt. ix. 9. — E. B.
2 Asvi'v, Levi) called also Matthew. — V. g.
8 Ver. 15. K#i jjxoXoi/^a!/, and they were following) Therefore even then already with reformed minds they were holding to [entering upon] the right way. — V. g.
4 Ver. 19. ToD voftQavos, the Bridegroom) This means Jesus, in whose absence, they, to whom He is known, cannot feel the day joyful, and in whose presence they cannot feel the day sad. — V. g.
5 Through Harmonists. — ED.
The Gnomon and margin of Ed. 2 and Vers. Germ, prefer the Sing. The Ed. Maj. has at it the mark 3.— E. B. ABCD and Amiat. Vulg. sup port the Sing. : abc later Vulg. and Rec. Text, the Plural. — ED.
6 A A, later Syr., whom Tischend. follows, read a.'ipn »ic CC.VTOU TO why pupa- B reads TO w^w. a.qi IMVTW. L, whom Lachm. follows, has TO Trhqo. ecTr CIVTOU. Dab Vulg. and Rec. Text have TO v'h^fu^ix. (to which Rec. Text adds O.UTOV) TO xonvov KTI-Q (omitted in Rec. Text) TOI> Trat'Actiov. —ED.