1. IlaX/n, again) On another Sabbath [which preceded the feast of the Passover by eight days. — Harm. p. 309]. Luke vi. G).1 — ijgqpawMMp^ withered) not from the womb, but through disease or a wound. This is the force of the participle.2
2. naperripouv, they were watching) Obliquely and secretly. On the immediately preceding Sabbath they had heard His doctrine concerning the Sabbath.
3. Asyg/, He saith) In order that the misery of the sick man might so much the more move the compassion of all. — lyti?a.i sl() An abbreviated expression for, arise, and go forth into the midst.
4. J/H, or) Not to save is to destroy. The opposition between the two words is immediate and direct. To save life refers to the whole man ; to do good, to a part ; and so in the respectively antithetic words — ^x^v) ltfe) of man; and therefore also a man's hand. — ICVWTWV, they were silent) ; Luke xiv. 3. — ?j<ri;;£a<rav, They had nothing to say.
5. HipiSXe-^d/Mvos, looking round) The expressions of Christ's countenance teach us many lessons, ver. 34 [comp. ch. x. 21, 27]. — o-uXXuTou^svof, being gneved) In the case of the Phari sees, their grief was malignant ; Jesus grieves with holy affec tion, individually for individuals. Along with His just grief was combined just anger ; see note ver. 2. — nupuffti, the hard ness) The habitual disposition of the heart renders the percep tion of the truth, and of its conclusions, either difficult or easy. — Kupuffis, hardness, which destroys the use of the senses, for in stance, the sight and the touch. It is blindness, not to see ; hardness, not to perceive ; John xii. 40.
1 tig TW avvu.yuyyv, into the synagogue) What an amount of wickedness is there not introduced into holy assemblages, and perpetrated in them !
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2 As distinguished from the adjective Zvpeiv, had it been used. — ED. Mark groups together, in ch. i., those acts to which Jesus' adversaries made no opposition : he then also joins together those which they assailed, in ch. ii. ; until, goaded on by hatred, they began laying plots for our Lord. The method of Luke is the same. — V. g.