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t Mk. iv. 27. 26. ὅτε δὲ ἵ ἐβλάστησεν ὁ Χόρτος, καὶ καρπὸν ἐποίησε, τότε ἐφάνη
Heb. ix. 4. Jas. ν. 18. καὶ τὰ Luldvea.
27. προσελθόντες δὲ οἱ δοῦλοι τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου
εἶπον αὐτῷ, Κύριε, οὐχὶ καλὸν σπέρµα ἔσπειρας ἐν τῷ σῷ ἀγρῷ; πόθεν οὖν ἔχει τὰ 1 ζιζάνια; 28. Ὁ δὲ ἔφη αὐτοῖς, Ἐχθρὸς ἄνθρω-
wn , Tos τοῦτο ἐποίησεν.
οἱ δὲ δοῦλοι εἶπον αὐτῷ,3 Θέλεις οὖν ἀπελθόντες
συλλέξωμεν αὖτά; 29. Ὁ δὲ ἔφη» Οὔ: µήποτε συλλέγοντες τὰ a Ch. xv. 13. ζιζάνια, " ἐκριζώσητε ἅμα αὗτοῖς τὸν σῖτον. 30. ἄφετε συναυξάνεσθαι
Lk. xvii. 6.
Jude x2. ἀμφότερα µέχρι ΄ τοῦ θερισμοῦ : καὶ ἐν τῷ ὅ καιρῷ τοῦ θερισμοῦ ἐρῶ v
ere and
in ver. 39. τοῖς “Oeptotats, Συλλέξατε πρῶτον τὰ Cildva, καὶ δήσατε αὐτὰ
w here an >
in Exod, εἰς ὁ ¥ δέσµας πρὸς τὸ κατακαῦσαι αὐτά ' τὸν δὲ σῖτον cuvaydyere’
xii. 22.
εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην µου.”
1 The art. ra in Τ.Ε. (81) is wanting in ΝΡΒΟΡ al. 2B omits δουλοι (W.H.) and BC have αντω λεγουσιν for evrov αντω (T.R.).
ND have λεγ. αυτω (Tisch.). Σφησιν in SBC.
“BD have ews, which W.H. adopt, putting αχρι and µεχρι in margin. 5 tw (in SCL) is omitted in most uncials.
6 εις omitted in LXA and bracketed in W.H.
7 B has συναγετε (W.H. with συναγαγετε in margin).
--ζιζάνια = bastard wheat, darnel, lolium temulentum, common in Palestine (Furrer, Wanderungen, p. 293), perhaps a Semitic word. Another name for the plant in Greek is αἷρα (Suidas, Lex.).—Ver. 26. τότε ἐφάνη: not distinguishable in the blade, not till it reached the ear, then easily so by the form, the ear branching out with grains on each twig (Koetsveld, De Gelijk., p. 25).—Ver. 27. οὐχὶκ.σ. ἔσπειρας, etc.: the surprise of the work- people arises from the extent of the wild growth, which could not be ex- plained by bad seed (with so careful a master) or natural growth out of an unclean soil. The tares were all over the field.—Ver. 28. ἐχθρὸς ἄν.: an inference from the state of the field— fact not otherwise or previously known.— θέλεις . . . συλλέξωμεν, deliberative sub- junctive in 1st person with θέλεις, 2nd person ; no tvaused in such case (Burton, M.and T.,§171). The servants propose to do what was ordinarily done, and is done still (vide Stanley, Sinai and Pales- tine, p. 426, and Furrer, Wanderungen, 293: ‘men, women and children were in many fields engaged in pulling up the weeds,”’ in which he includes ‘den Lolch”). — Ver. 29. οὔ, emphatic ; laconic ‘‘no,” for good reason.—py- ποτε: the risk is that wheat and ‘‘tares’? may be uprooted together.— ἅμα, with dative (αὐτοῖς) but not a pre-
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position, the full phrase is ἅμα σὺν: ‘‘at the same time with,’ as in 1 Thess. iv. 17, ν. Io. On this word vide Bos, Ellip. Graec., p. 463, and Klotz, Devar., ii. 97. The roots being intertwined, and having a firm hold of the soil, both wheat and tares might be pulled up together. —Ver. 30. Συλλέξατε πρῶτον: before or after cutting down the crop? Not said which; order of procedure immaterial, for now the wheat is rife.—8yoare els δέσµας; the eis, omitted in some MSS., is not necessary before a noun of same meaning with the verb. Fritzsche thinks the expression without preposition more elegant. Meyer also omits, with appeal to Kiihner on verbs with double accusa- tives.—This parable embodies the great/ principle of bad men being tolerated for the sake of the good. It relegates to the end the judgment which the contem- poraries of Jesus, including the Baptist, expected at the beginning of the Messianic kingdom (Weiss-Meyer). ς
Vv. 31-35. The Mustard Seed and the Leaven (Lk. xiii. 18-21 (both); Mk. iv. 30-32 (Mustard Seed)). A couplet of brief parables of brighter tone than the two already considered, predicting great extensive and intensive development of the Kingdom of God; from Luke’s narra- tive (xiii, το), apparently part of a synagogue discourse. It is intrinsically probable that Jesus in all His addresses