when under other circumstances he might have been safer : comp. ver. 67.
60. Oux ; ri ; answerest them not ? What is it that, etc. ?) Two distinct interrogations.1
61. EuXo^jjroi/, of the Blessed) "jra, the Blessed God.
[62. 'E/w lipt, I am) Jesus, when His enemies spake false wit ness against Him, and when His disciples withdrew themselves from the confession of the truth, Himself made an open profes sion of the truth. — V. g.]
65. "Hp^avro, began) A new step in their dealings with Him. — Iwrip'srai, the servants) who used to have in their hands pdfidoi, rods.3
66. Kdru, beneath) There seem to have been a flight of steps there.
69. 'H vai&iffxri, the maid [not as Engl. Ver. a maid]) That same maid : or else a second one, so that the ndXtv, again, may be connected with the participle alone, Idovca, having seen him.3 — TO?; vapwryxoffiv, to them that stood by) She said it then in the spirit of joking, not with intent to hurt him [Comp. note on Matt. xxvi. 69]. — 1| avruv, of them) The expression, of them, shows, that speaking against Jesus and His disciples was most common and frequent.
72. 'B*vj9aX£i ?xXa/e, he betook himself) To weeping, or, as Stapulensis interprets it, He broke forth into weeping. The French happily express it, il se mit a pleurer Theophr. charact., Ktpi Xo-yoworfas' ev6u$ ipurr/ffai — KU.I !-T//3aXwv epurav : as to which see Casaubon [Engl. Ver., When he thought thereon.']
1 But Tischend. has "but one interrogation at the end of xotraftccpriipowtv ; Lachm. says in his Preface that to introduce an interrogation after wlty (;) here, where the rl is used for the relative, is subversive of the sense. B reads o TI. But ADPef, n. Vulg. " non respondes quicquam ad ea guce tibi obji- ciuntur." — ED. and TRANSL.
2 So marg. of Engl. Ver. translates Matt. xxvi. 67, tppxTrurav, they smote Him with rods, instead of " with the palms of their hands." — ED. and TKANSL.
» Tischend. omits TT«A/I/, with B, Memph. and Theb. But Lachm. reads it with ADac Vulg. — ED. and TKANSL.