A y A Lal , αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱματίου, καὶ χεῖρον oxiopa γίνεται. 17. οὐδὲ ” βάλ- ν here, Aoucw οἶνον νέον εἰς ἀσκοὺς παλαιούς: εἶ δὲ µήγε, ῥήγνυνται ob ἀσκοί, καὶ ὁ οἶνος ἐκχεῖται, καὶ οἱ ἀσκοὶ ἀπολοῦνται]: ἀλλὰ βάλ- > / > > ‘ , eee , ον A λουσιν οἶνον νέον eis ἀσκοὺς καινούς, καὶ ἀμφότερα 3 " συντηροῦνται.
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arall. ohn xiii. 5 (of liquids). Ch. xxvi. 12 (ἐπί τινος),
18. Ταῦτα αὐτοῦ λαλοῦντος αὐτοῖς, ἰδού, ἄρχων ἐλθὼν ὃ προσεκύνει w Lk. ν. 38
αὐτῷ, λέγων, “Ὅτι ἡ θυγάτηρ µου ἄρτι ἐτελεύτησεν: ἀλλὰ ἐλθὼν x al
Lal > 9 22 Χ ἐπίθες τὴν χεῖρά σου ἐπ᾽ αὐτήν, καὶ 7 ζήσεται.
ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἠκολούθησεν *
ου 8 ε ο 3 A αὐτῷ καὶ ot μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ.
18. ix. 17 (same const.). y Mk. xvi. Rom. xiv. 9.
19. Καὶ ἐγερθεὶς μη
11. John v.25. Acts ix. 41.
1 For the future, in most MSS., $§B have απολλυνται (Tisch., W.H.).
3 All uncials have αµφοτεροι.
5 The reading is in confusion here. B has after apywv,qts προσελθων, probably ‘the true reading out of which all variants arose (τις for εις; εις om.; ελθων for προσ»;
εις ελθων, eADwv.)o —, 4S8CD have the imp. B as in text.
one putteth a patch of an unfulled, raw piece of cloth (ῥάκος from ῥήγνυμι) on an old garment.—ro πλήρωμα αὐτοῦ, the filling, the patch which fills; of it, z.¢., the old garment, not of the unfulled cloth (Euthy., Grotius, De W., etc.).—aiper ἀπὸ, taketh from = tears itself away by contraction when wetted, taking a part of the old garment along with it.—xat ... ytverat, and so a worse rent takes place. This looks in the direction of an apology for John and his disciples (so Weiss) = they and we are in sympathy in the main, but let them not assimilate their practice to ours; better remain as they are; imitation would only spoil a good type of piety. What is to be done with the unfulled cloth is not indicated, ‘but it goes without saying. Let it remain by itself, be fulled, and then turned into a good new garment.
Ver. 17. The new parable of the ‘wine and wine-skins is introduced, not merely because the Speaker is full of matter, but because it enables Him aptly ‘to show both sides of the question, the twofold application of the principle.— οὐδὲ βάλλουσιν: nobody puts new wine into old skins; véos applied to wine, καινός to skins (ἀσκοὺς καινούς). νέος is new in time, καινός in quality. That which is new in time does not necessarily deteriorate with age; it may even im- prove. That which is new in quality always deteriorates with age, like skins or cloth, vide Trench’s Synonyms, 1x.— εἰ δὲ µήγε (vide ad vi. 1): two disastrous consequences ensue: skins burst, wine spilt. The reason not stated, assumed to be known. New wine ferments, old
skins have lost their toughness and stretchableness. ‘‘ They have become hard leather and give no more” (Koets- veld, De Gelijkenissen, p. 99). That is the one side—keep the old to the old.— ἀλλὰ βάλλουσι . . . συντηροῦνται: this is the other—the new to the new; new wine in fresh skins, and both are pre- served as suiting one another. With reference to the two parables, Schanz remarks that, in the first, the point of comparison is the distinction between part and whole, in the second form and contents are opposed to each other. So after him, Holtzmann in H.C. Weiss takes both parables as explaining the practice of John’s disciples, Holtz- mann as giving reasons why Christ’s disciples differed from all others. The truth as above indicated lies between. Vv. 18-26. The\daughter of Fairus, with interlude (Mk. v. 21-43; Lk. viii. 40-56). Given by Matthew in immediate connection with the discourse on fast- ing, but by Mark, and Luke following him, in connection with the return from the eastern shore, after the story of the demoniac. Ver. 18. ἰδοὺ . . . λέγων: exactly the same formula as in viii. 2.— ἄρχων, an important person, a ruler of synagogue, according to Ματ]ς,- -εἷς : peculiar here, but taken from Mark where it is intelligible, the suppliant being there described as one of the rulers of the synagogue. The word puzzled the scribes, and gave rise to many variants (vide crit. ποίε).---ἄρτι ἐτελεύτησεν: this statement of Matthew, compared with those of Mark and Luke, which make the father say his daughter was dying,