<?ro\is, a city, John i. 44. It was a XW,OK>TO?./;, a milage-town. To the blind man, on recovering sight, the aspect of heaven and of the Divine works in nature was more joyous than that of man's works in the village.
24. 'ri; ftevdpa, mpivaroZvraz,1 as trees, loalking) The blind man says, that it is by this alone [their walking] that he knows they are men, not trees, viz. because they walk.
25. 'Ava;3>J^a/, lift up his eyes) and try them.
26. El; rov oJ-/.ov — pqde tig rqv xuifAqv, into the house — nor into the village) His house therefore wras in the remote extremity of the village. — w<& £/V»]c, nor tell) Jesus avoided celebrity, especially at that time. \_For this miracle is the last in the Evangelists before the Feast of Tabernacles (and before the discourses recorded in John ch. vii.— x. — V. g.) ; and He forbade this miracle to be pub lished abroad, just as He did the healing of the deaf and dumb man, ch. vii. 36. The people, after having celebrated the Pass over, repaired to their country employments : His adversaries were thenceforth honoured with no further sign ; and whatever effects were needful to be produced in the case of the disciples by miracles of this kind, had now already reached their highest point. Behold the year of grace now completed in Galilee! — Harm., p. 348.] — TIVI, to any one) who is in the town.
27. 'Ev ry bb'jj, on the way) He held pious discourse whilst on the way.
31. Tiiv Tiov TW avdpuvov, the Son of Man) He calls Himself by an humble title : after the resurrection, He says, Christ ought to have suffered; Luke xxiv. 26. — avodoxipaffdrivai, to be rejected) For they [the elders, etc.] denied that which Peter, ver. 29, had confessed ; ch. xiv. 63, 64.
32. Tlappqffiq, freely [openly]) Heretofore He had only in an indirect manner indicated it, Luke iv. 23. — rov) rovrov.
32, 33. ' EKiTifj.av — s'TTiTi^ss, to rebuke — rebuked) Peter, whilst he rebukes, earns a rebuke himself. The same verb occurs, ver. 30, if
1 The fuller reading, on a; oivOp/x, opu vtoi'xu.rwvTa.;, was preferred by the marginof the Ed.Maj., but the Ed. 2 and Vers. Germ, agree with theGnomon. — E. B. ABC corrected later GLXA, have OTI and opu. But Da6comit both. Vulg., " homines vclut arbores." The Elzevir Rec. Text omit both. — ED. and TRANSL.