56. [*Ev rat's ayopaTg, in the streets [or the fora\) where they would have the greater certainty of meeting Him, and where the greatest number might obtain relief at once. — V. g.] — Kav) This particle is compounded here, not of xal and sav, as it is usually, but of xai and av, as in 2 Cor. xi. 16. Comp. note on Chrys. de Sacerd., p. 459. — a-^uvrai, they might touch) after the example of the woman with the issue of blood : ch. v. 27. —
1—5. O/ 3?apiaaToi — i&ovrsf rivag ruv {j,aQr,ruv airou xoivais %epffi — iffdiovra; aprovg (o/ yap — ttXttSfc) MTWftl svtpurSiffiv avrov 01 3>apiGa?bi. x.r.x.) The construction of the language is pendent : from not observing which, some inserted e/jt,e/j.-^>a,vro after apr»u;. But the whole period, extended by the parenthesis, is sustained by the verb enipuTuffiv. For the verb is either repeated at the end of the parenthesis, Acts ii. 8, 11 ; 1 Cor. viii. 1-4 ; Judg. ix. 16, 19 ; 2 Sam. xxi. 2, 3, 4 ; '1 Kings viii. 41, 42 ; or it is then in fine [and not till then] set down, as in this passage, and Eph. iii. 1, 14, and the connection is marked by the particles xai, 81, ovv, and in this passage by IVf/ra.1 Very similar is the section of Gregory Thaumaturgus, which we shall give in a more con tracted form than the original : xaro^&DT-a/ fj -^vyji, iv uff-^sp sv xarovrrpu taurriv ^lupqaaffa (rc> a'wyov, KOLI "7rd7.iv TO Xoy/jcoc, x.r.X.) EITA ravra sv aur>j xaravo^ffaffa, TO, ftt* yt/ptnt EKBAAAOI, ra ds aya6a EKTPE«>OI. See Paneg. on Orig., p. 70, etc., ed. Stutgard. — [a-ro 'is/JoffoXu/iwv, from Jerusalem) The Passover had been celebrated there. — V. g.]
2. ToDr' fsn} that is to say) The Evangelist adds an interpre tation, as in ver. 1 1, ch. v. 41, etc. ; himself not regarding un washed hands as defiled.
3. TLvy/Ari) nu/^, the fist. — Tuy/^, pisn 1J?, up to the wrist.
1 BDL Vulg. abc Syr. Memph. read in ver. 5, x.a.1 instead of 'iiritra. supports the STIIT*, with Rec. Text. — ED. and TRANSL.