,u.r,fais, no man) Whatever does not serve Jesus Christ, is unwor thy to serve any one of mortals. [Therefore the tree was doomed to the curse for the honour of the Son of GOD. — V. g.]
15. "Hp^aro, began) Men ought to have been wise [the day before], whilst the Lord \vas still sparing and warning by mere gestures [In the temple, " He looked round about upon all things,"] ver. 11.
1 6. A/a ro\j hpou, through the temple) As if through a street.
17. ' Edidoi,ff-/.i, He taught) The addition of teaching makes punishment salutary in its effect. — -raff/ roTf idviei, to all nations) Construe with the house of prayer. Comp. the accents, Isa. Ivi. 7 [My house shall be called an house of prayer for all peopled]
18. Ka/, and) They either had approved of that traffic as lawful, or as a source of gain : or else they thought that it ought to have been done away with rather by their agency than by His. — ipofaZvro, they feared) Therefore they sought for artifices.
[19. "On o-^s syiviro, ivhen evening was come) Mark has given with peculiar and extraordinary distinctness, the description of these last walks of the Saviour. — Harm., p. 457.]
22. "E^trs, have) Hold fast. — V'HSTIV §sov, faith) Such as it is right that they should have, who have God [as their God] : faith great and sincere, which believes in God, and believes in there being no foundation save God in all the things of the natural world. So sv ry vpoffeuxfi ™D Stov in prayer of God, i.e. to God in solitude, Luke vi. 12. So the kindness of God is used of the kindness, which is bestowred on the orphan [of Jonathan] from a regard to God alone, 2 Sam. ix. 3, with which comp. ver. 1. So the cedars of God are trees not planted by human hands. The mountains [hills] of God, those which human culture does not reach.
25. K«/ oravj and when) The connection is, We must pray " without doubting and wrath," 1 Tim. ii. 8. — erfar,™, stand) When in respect to the very attitude of your body you have laid yourselves out for prayer : com. Jer. xviii. 20. To stand is the attitude of one praying with confidence [Luke xviii. 11, 13] : to lie prostrate is that of one praying so as to deprecate vengeance, erfou, from effrtixa, signifies / am he [one] who have betaken myself to standing ; a signification which admirably suits the other passages also, where OT^KU is read. When standing we touch the earth with as small a part of us as possible ; for which