A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 • SECTION 504

Chapter Vi.

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zeuxis [repetition of the same word ; see Append.], Luke vii. 14 ; John xi. 43. For His power was always instantaneous in its effect ; comp. Num. xx. 1 1. — GO! Xi/w, I say unto thee) This is not contained in Talitha Curni, and yet it is with truth added.

42. ~Evdtu$, straightway) It was not by degrees that at last she regained her consciousness. — yap, for) She returned to the state consonant to her age. — dudsxa, twelve) comp. ver. 25. It was at one and the same time the woman was healed [of the issue of twelve years' standing] and the girl [of twelve years] was raised to life ; the one having begun life at the same time that the other had begun her misery.

43. A/sffrs/Xaro, He prohibited strictly) [The crowd, no doubt, who were not unacquainted with the fact of the girl's death, might have both known the miracle, and published it for the glory of GOD. — V. g. — fuytTv, to eat) She was by this time alive and well, and not needing any medicine. — V. g.]

I.1 'AxoXoudoDff/v, follow) Although they were not all admitted to see the raising of Jairus' daughter.

2. rsvopsvou, having come) When the arrival of Jesus had taken place not very long before. — nodsv — doStTta, whence — given) But indeed He is Wisdom itself. — xai Buvdpsic) Understand TV, what [are also these mighty works] ? how [has He been enabled to do them] "?

3. 'O r'sxruv) Son of the carpenter, or even Himself a carpenter ; for they add, the Son of Mary, in antithesis to the Son of the car penter. \lle Himself therefore toiled at that kind of labour, which was corresponding te flis spiritual work ; Zech. vi. 12. — V. g.]

1 ex,eWsi/)from thence : this term has a wider sense in this passage of Mark than in Matthew xiii. 53, and has respect to the whole sojourn of the Saviour at Capernaum and the adjacent district. Jairus dwelt in Caper naum ; and, not long after the resurrection of his daughter, the parables recorded in Matt, xiii., etc., were put forth near Capernaum. — Harm., p. 325.

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