sent judicial blindness. — 7i/a, so that: LXX. Gen. xxii. 14.— KUI afciQriGi'rai avroTg ra aaapr^aara, and their sins should be for given them) This is the true healing, spoken of Matt. xiii. 15 ; Ps. ciii. 3.
13. O-JK o'/dart, do ye not know) Jesus marks with reproof the question of the disciples. — KO.I -rig, and how then) The parable concerning the seed is the primary and fundamental one [the foundation of all the others]. — xdaag, all) constituting and com prising the perfect doctrine of Christ.
14. 'o c<7Tiipuv, the sower) Christ is the sower. Peter, Paul, and others, sow the seed of Christ, and are servants of Christ.
15. "OTOU evslpsrat o Xoyoc, ichere the word is sown) This clause is rather to be connected with what follows. — evd'eus, imme diately) Satan's most favourite time for lying in wait. — sv ra7; xapdiais, in their hearts) This means more than into their hearts.
16. 17. Etidew;, immediately) Great changes can take place in the soul very speedily.
19. A'I ftp! ra. XO/TGC tTidv/AiM, the lusts of other things) the pleasures of life, in Luke viii. 14 : in one's mode of living, loves, tastes for literature, etc. — i/Wofcu^tma/j entering in) He who hath received the word of God, ought to see, lest the cares of the world wax strong upon him, and take more violent hold, than even before, of his new-born expansion of soul and his mental affections, which have been rendered more enlarged by means of the word of God. — y/Wa/, it becometh) viz. the word.
20. "EK, the one) Accusative.
21. Ka/, and) Ver. 24 is closely connected with ver. 20, and those that go before : therefore also this comes in between paren thetically ; comp. Luke viii. 16. In this sense, the earth covers for a considerably long time the seed committed to it ; whereas you, on the contrary, ought to put forth into action the power of the word, which you have heard, immediately upon hearing it. — o Xt»%v&f, a candle [torch- light]) So also Christ comes, together with His Gospel, as the true light. And a man himself ought to be, not the bushel, but the candlestick ; comp. Luke viii, 16—18. — xX/i/jjv, a couch [not as Engl). Vers., a bed^\) where food is taken.
1 Lacbm. reads, with Rec. Text, «, and so Vulg. But Tischend., with all the uncials which have accents, being of later date, tu. — ED. VOL. I. K K