wives:1 for that would sound somewhat inconsistent with pro priety. — riKva, children) 1 Cor. iv. 14-17. — ptra diuypuv, with persecutions) This is added lest the disciples should look for [ex pect] external prosperity. Persecutions shall not be wanting : but these not only shall not prove prejudicial, but shall even be ad vantageous towards his receiving an hundred-fold, preventing him in the interim from being unduly elated by that l hundred fold.' — aluvi, in the ivorld) not xaipp, in this time. — rG> sp^ofLsvu, coming) Already that world is in the act of coming.
31. "Eaovrai <*p urot, first shall be) First (xpuroi), is the subject ; see Matt. xix. 30, note.
32. 'E&apfSovvro, they were amazed [fear-struck]) They knew not themselves the reason why. Often something, which does not fall under the vision [the ken] of the mind or of the eye, affects another sense ; Dan. x. 7. They were fear-struck [shud dered with amazement] on account of Jesus, who went before : they were afraid, on account of their own selves, who were fol lowing Him. By this shuddering amazement and fear, they were divested of their opinion and hope of earthly things, if not completely, as, for instance, in the case of James and John [ver. 35, etc.], yet in part. — rip&ro, He becfan) Already He had begun before, ch. viii. 31 ; but now He began to speak more fully and at large. And this even as yet was but the beginning.
35. Tipoffxoptvovrai) go together to Him. — S£Xo//,£c, voir,s^c, ice tvould that thou shouldst do) So in the following ver., What ivouldye that I should dot — cro/jj<rr;5* >roirlsa,r $6$, that thou shouldst do; that I should do? Grant) They use art in their request; for petitions are often more readily asked and obtained, which consist in doing, than those which consist in granting or giving.
38. To vorqpiw — TO (3d<7rriff{j,a, the cup — the baptism) To drink this cup was difficult (as often death itself is taken in the act of drinking). Baptism also, among the Jews, was a thing to be shuddered at, inasmuch as the whole body was dipped in a stream, however cold. Accordingly, by both words the passion of Christ is denoted : by the cup, His inward passion ; the cup is therefore placed first: by the baptism, chiefly His external passion, lie was distended inwardly with His passion [referring
Two later MSS. add xcti ywoiix.cc. — ED. and TKANSL.