6—13.
λέγει! αὐτῷ, “"Ταῦτα πάντα σοι” δώσω, ἐὰν πεσὼν προσκυνήσῃς | very freq. 1p ;
ve. a ο a“ ° οι. 10. Τότελέγει αὐτῷ 6 Ιησοῦς, “!"Yraye,? Σατανᾶ : γέγραπται alwaysin- : ο ο, , γέγρ
trans.
, ‘ , x ΄ na , ‘ | a} , 2a , . yap, ΄ Κύριον τον Θεόν σου ~ προσκυνῆσεις, και αὔτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύ- Mm with acc.
>»? σεις.
προσῆλθον καὶ ᾿ διηκόνουν αὐτῷ.
Il. Τότε ἀφίησιν αὐτὸν ὁ διάβολος: καὶ ἰδού, ἄγγελοι in Lk. iv. η » ayy
here and 8, and in Rev
12. ΑΚΟΥΣΑΣ δὲ 6 ᾿Ιησοῦς 4 ὅτι Ἰωάννης ® παρεδόθη, ἀνεχώρησεν ii. 37; iv.8.
eis τὴν Γαλιλαίαν -
, 3 6 ᾿ r κατωκησεν εἰς Καπερναοὺμ” την
13. καὶ ἃκαταλιπὼν τὴν Ναζαρέτ, ἐλθὼν ρ Ch.
ο Mk. i. 13.
x. 10. , ο. ϱρ Mk. i. 14.
παραθαλασσίαν, ἐν ὁρίοις Ηεὺ, xi.
27. r here only in N. T., in Sept. (¢.g., 2 Chron. viii. 17)
1NBCDZ have ειπεν (most mod. edd.).
2 παντα σοι tr. S$BCZ with several cursives. 5 Some MSS. (DLZ) insert οπισω pov, obviously imported trom xvi. 23. 4ρ |. omit SBCDZ; probably the insertion is due to ver. 12 commencing a lesson
in Lectionaries.
5 This name is spelt kadap. in the older MSS. (§§BDZ), which is adopted through-
out by W.H.
tions of this class. Christ was proof against them. The prince of the world found nothing of this sort in Him (John xiv. 30). In practice this homage, if Jesus had been willing to render it, would have taken the form of conciliating the Pharisees and Sadducees, and pander- ing to the prejudices of the people. He took His own path, and became a Christ, neither after the type imagined by the Baptist, nor according to the liking of the Jews and their leaders. So He gained universal empire, but at a great cost.—Ver. 10. ὕπαγε σατανᾶ. Jesus passionately repels the Satanic sug- gestion. The ὕπαγε σ. is true to His character. The suggestions of worldly wisdom always roused in Him passionate aversion. The ὀπίσω pov of some MSS. does not suit this place; it is imported from Matt. xvi. 23, where it does suit, the agent of Satan in a temptation of the same sort being a disciple. Christ’s final word to the tempter is an absolute, peremptory -Begone. Yet He _ con- descends to support His authoritative negative by a Scripture text, again from Deut. (vi. 13), slightly adapted, προσκυνήσεις being substituted for φοβηθήσῃ (the µόνῳ in second clause is omitted in Swete’s Sept.). It takes the accusative here instead of dative, as in ver. 9, because it denotes worship proper (Weiss-Meyer). The quotation states a principle in theory acknowledged by all, but how hard to work it out faithfully in life !
Ver.11. τότε ἀφίησιν: then, when the peremptory ὕπαγε had been spoken.
Nothing was to be made of one who would not do evil that good might come. --καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγελοι. The angels were ministering to Him, with food, pre- sumably, in the view of the evangelist. It might be taken in a wider sense, as signifying that angels ministered con- stantly to one who had decidedly chosen the path of obedience in preference {ο that of self-pleasing. i
Vv. 12-25. Beginnings of the Galilean ministry (Mk. i. 14, 15; Lk. iv. 14, 15). In a few rapid strokes the evangelist describes the opening of the Messianic work of Jesus in Galilee. He has in view the great Sermon on the Mount, and the group of wonderful deeds he means thereafter to report, and he gives first a summary description of Christ’s varied activities by way of introduction.
Vv. 12, 13. ἀκούσας δὲ... Γαλιλαίαν: note ΟΕ time. Jesus returned to Galilee on hearing that John was delivered up, t.¢., in the providence of God, into the hands of his enemies. Further particu- lars as to this are given in chapter xiv. Christ’s ministry in Galilee began when the Baptist’s came to an end; how long after the baptism and temptation not in- dicated. Weiss (Meyer) thinks that in the view of the evangelist it was im- mediately after, and that the reference to John’s imprisonment is meant simply to explain the choice of Galilee as the sphere of labour.—Ver. 13. Ναζαρέτ. Jesus naturally went to Nazareth first, but He did not tarry there.—Katwxyoev eis Καπερναοὺμ, He went to settle (as in ii. 23) in Capernaum. This migration to