to the cup ; He was filled with the cup of anguish] : He was covered over [as a person baptized is with water] with His passion. Moreover, both are appropriately employed ; for they who take the sacraments, are partakers of the baptism and the cup of Christ ; 1 Cor. xii. 13 : and the baptism of Christ and our baptism, as also the Holy Supper, have a close connection with Christ's passion and death, and with ours also. — KissSs — fia.<xri<s6rj- oea8i, ye shall drink — ye shall be baptized) James, when slain with the sword, drank the cup [Acts xii. 2] ; afterwards John was baptized in boiling oil, as Ecclesiastical History represents. Boiling oil is in consonance with the term, baptism. Our Lord Himself, in Gethsemane, also calls His suffering of death a cup. It is in consonance with this, that the cup is placed before the baptism.1
[41. O/' 5sy.a, the ten) When one of two persons seeks some special privilege, the other takes it ill, who would have been contented of himself. — V. g.]
42. AoxoSmj) they who think [ivhich are accounted, Engl. Vers.] that they rule. A Metonymy of the antecedent for the consequent ; that is, they who strenuously exercise rule. [ Worldly princes have but little greatness in the eyes of the Divine Majesty. — V. g.J
44. ndvruv, of all) ver. 43, of you [your]. Thus there is an Epitasis in this verse.2
[45. A/ajcc/^ffa/, in order to minister) Who is there, whom the Saviour's incomparable example ought not to put to the blush, and sweetly gain over to Him? — V. g.j
46. Bapripaio$, Bartimceus) A proparoxyton [accented on the antepenult] as the simple name T/>a/og. Timseus seems to have been a man at that time known at Jericho ; and Bartimaaus seems to have been made a beggar only by reason of his blind ness [and not previously]. — 6 rupA&g, blind) This epithet had be come an equivalent to a surname. Bartimaeus was very well known in the time of the apostles. \_As to the other blind man
1 Just as Jesus' and James* cup of suffering was before John's baptism in sufferings. — ED. and TKANSL.
2 i.e., An emphatic augmentation of force added to a previous enunciation : as KiivTuv is here, when compared with the previous vpuv. See Append. — ED. and THANSL.