whereby pride is destroyed. — xai etpqvfvtrt, and have peace) or else, ye shall have : comp. ver. 34 : viz. by removing a puffed up spirit, which is the source of quarrels [ver. 33, 34].
I. Ka/ sxtTdsv avaora.c, and having arisen from thence) The antithesis is not so much to Capernaum, where He had taught sitting, ch. ix. 33, 35, as to Galilee, ix. 30. — diu, roD) See App. Crit. Ed. ii. on this passage.1 — ug tluQn, as He had been wont) The habitual acts of Jesus are well worthy of observation : Luke iv. 16.
5. "Eypa-^sv, wrote) viz. Moses, the writer of the Pentateuch : ch. xii. 19.
6. ' A-pyj,* xriatuz, from the beginning of creation) Therefore there was not any creation anterior to the creation described in the beginning of Genesis.
[9. 'O Qioc, — avQpuKof, God — man) Whatsoever God doeth and ordaineth, it is man's part to regard as an established principle. It is an impiety to accept as authoritative what God rejects ; or to approve of what God censures. — V. g.]
[10. naX/v, again) The Saviour had given the reply which follows to the Pharisees, Matt. xix. 9 ; but the disciples, by re peating the question, called forth a repetition of the same reply.
-v. g.]
II. 'E-TT avrqv, against her).
13. "A-v^jjra/, should touch) A modest request.
14. 'Hyai*axrjj<r£, was much displeased) on account of the ob struction thrown in the way of His love by the disciples. — roiolruv cffriv, of such is) Of such as these, it is [to such belongs] the privilege to receive the kingdom of God, ver. 15.
15. "Og lav, whosoever) This He did to mark His disapproval of that very feeling, by which the disciples were moved to put
' K<*< vfootv is the reading of BC corrected later, L. Meniph. But DGA be Vulg. omit the x»i. Rec. Text with A reads, $/« TC,V vtpctv. — ED. and TKANSL.