31. 'fig xoxxov, as a grain") viz. let us compare [ver. 30] it.1- ftixporipos) less.
31, 32. "Orav ff-Trapy, when it has been sown) This clause, being placed twice, exactly defines that time when the grain ceases to be small, and begins to become great in size. In ver. 31, the emphasis in pronunciation is to be laid on the ivhen, and in ver. 32, on the words, it has been sown.
33. Kadu$ ij8vvavro axovsiv, according as they were able to hear) They did not admit in their then state to have the truth more openly spoken to them.
35. 'Ev exfivy ry fi/tspq,, on that day) See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. The pronoun ixelvfy that, does not denote pre cisely that day on which the Saviour put forth the parables of the sower and the rest of the parables, as Grotius, besides other commentators, acknoAvledge ; but, with less definiteness, is to be referred to a day marked in the former course of this gospel, namely, ch. ii. 1. So Judg. xiii. 10, DVD, LXX. ev r,/j.spq, or, as it is better read in the Cod. Alex. rr\ 'Jipspcf, Ixemj. So Matt. xxiv. 48, b KO.KOS &>DXoj txcftof.' And indeed Mark applies IKIIMQC, in various senses ; see notes ch. ii. 20, xiii. 24. As to the time of this voyage, comp. Harmon. Evang. § 49.
30. TlotfaXafi&dmjffiv, they take Him with them) i.e. they to whom the ship belonged took Him with them to cross the lake. — cog f,v, as He was) Without any sumptuous preparation [or equipment] ; Matt. viii. 20. So the LXX., wg sffriv, and wj r^av, 2 Kings vii. 7. — crXo/ap/a, little ships) and in them men. — psr Aurov, with Him) with Jesus.
37. AaTXa-^) i.e. xivqaii vtpuv xai rapa^ /j,sra i&d/«>, x.r.X., An agitation and commotion of the clouds after a calm [fair weather]. — Eustathius. — e<r's/3aXsv, dashed into) viz. dashed themselves into.
38. ngu/ii/jj, the stern) where the helm is. — rb «/wtiicp<£Xcc/0y, the pillow) This was a part of the ship, as one may infer from the article ; it was of wood, as Theophylactus observes. See
1 BDA read MX.X.U, and so Tischend. But AC ViUg. be, X.OX.X.QV; and so Lachm. — ED.
2 Where the more immediate antecedent to ix.iiuo; is the faithful and wise servant, and the antecedent intended must be supplied from the course of the previous discourse, ver. 38, 39, etc. — ED.