away the infants from Him. — d^rai, shall receive) for it is offered [to allj. — wj vaidiov, as a little child) receives : for it re ceives the kingdom in very deed.
16. Ka/, and) He did more than He was asked, ver. 13. [tvXoyei aura, He blessed them) By that very act conferring on them the blessings, which He afforded to adults by the media tion of the word. — V. g.]
17. ' ExKopsuo/usvou auroD, as He was going forth) from the house, ver. 10. — vpoffdpapuv) The Vulg. has procurrens, as if it had the reading v-podpapuv.1 This man was at all events impelled by a remarkable degree of earnestness. He seems to have been eagerly waiting for the Saviour's coming. [Sudden impulses of this kind oftentimes by and by grow languid. — V. g.] — yom-rsrjjffa;, falling at His knees) He must therefore have felt great ardour. — voiqffM, shall I do) Those who are in spirit little children, receive not the kingdom of heaven by doing : ver. 15.
18. EJirev, He said) The Lord replies, I. To the remarkable title which the young man had addressed to Him : II. To the question which he proposed. — ri Me ^'tytis ayaQbv ; why callest thou Me good?) There were many things in Jesus, viewing Him merely externally, by reason of which the ignorant would not form the best opinion concerning Him : John i. 47 ; Matt. xi. (5, 19 ; Isa. liii. 2, etc. Moreover also He did not rest on Him self, but ever referred Himself wholly to the Father. He acted the part of a traveller and a pilgrim in the world ; and in that condition, in which the Psalms describe Him as wretched and needy, He was ever aiming towards the eternal good and the eternal joy, concerning which this youth was enquiring. Ps. xvi. 2, 5, etc. : My goodness \extendeth not to thee, Engl. V.] is not independent of thee. Comp. John xiv. 28, xvii. 5 ; Heb. v. 8, 9, ix. 12. He did not " know Himself according to the flesh ;" as Augustine preaches [distinctly states], 1. i. de Doctr. Christ., c. 34. For good, d/atfoj, properly applies to one blessed.2 The young man was seeking with [by application to] Jesus happi-
' So also a : ' prsecurrens ' in b : ' adcurrit,' d. A has fi>w rif vhovaici; Tfoodopoi^uv. — ED. and TUANSL.
a Beatum, a term appropriate in the full sense only to God. — Ki>. and TRANST,.