act He led them on to some degree of attention. — 2arai/av, Satan) see Matt. xii. 26, note.
26. 'Aveffrri) A very suitable word; rose up, that is to say, it would be a strange thing !
27. 'EOSV w — dqfffi, xul rorz — diapnatei) A most similar con struction occurs ; Deut. XX. 5, etc. — w a-xoSavy xai tripos, *y- xa/v/I/; also Gen. xxvii. 12 ; Matt. v. 25, xxvi. 53, xxvii. 64; Rom. xi. 25, 26, 35 ; also Mark v. 23 at the end of the verse ; Luke xiii. 25, xviii. 7 ; John xii. 35.
28. To/s vkTg ruv avdpuwv, to the sons of men) Ordinary sins are the sins of man ; but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the sin of Satan. — xai ai (SXaffpripiai) The omission of the article in some editions gives great force to the language.1
29. AIUVIO-J aftaprlas, everlasting guilt) Sin in this place denotes guilt ; and everlasting sin or guilt is opposed with great pro priety of language to forgiveness [It therefore carries with it the punishment consisting as well of (in) the feeling as also of (in) the penalty itself (damnation). V. g. — 'A/OWOU xpiasus [the reading of the Rec. Text] is a gloss.2
31.3 O/' adeXpoi xat r) ^rrip avrou) See App. Crit. Ed. ii. Oil this passage.4 Mark has placed the brothers first in order, implying that the brothers had made the first move in seeking Him, and the mother followed them. [She is not, however, on that account, to be held free from all blame in the case- — V. g.] There is a similar account to be given for the order of the words in Numb, xii. 1, 10, where Miriam, being the more prominent of the two in opposing Moses, is placed before Aaron. So Rachel and Leah, in inverse order, Gen. xxxi. 14; Gad and Reuben, Numb, xx xii. 6. She who was " blessed among women," suffered less
was flocking around Him, that multitude being free from other concerns at the time, and preparing to go up to celebrate the Feast. — Harm., p. 314.
1 D and Rec. Text, which Griesbach and Scholz follow, omit the «/. But ABC are against the omission. — ED.
3 A, however, supports it. But BL Vulg. and Memph., and bcd(- delicti') support dt.ff.ei.oT^otros. D reads u-fixpn'm; ; and so a and Cypr. have ' peccati.' — ED.
3 toxovTKi ovv, There come then) This expression refers us back to the e|»jX0ot<, ver. 21. — V. g.
4 A supports Rec. Text in this order of the words. But CDGLAafcc Vulg. read them thus — q ftyTyp nvroti X.MI oi d'bihQol M.VTOV. — ED.