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17. Οἱ δὲ λέγουσιν αὐτῷ, ““Οὐκ ἔχομεν ὧδε
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19. Καὶ κελεύσας τοὺς ὄχλους ἀνακλιθῆναι ἐπὶ τοὺς
χόρτους. καὶ ὃ λαβὼν τοὺς πέντε ἄρτους καὶ τοὺς δύο ἰχθύας,
ἀναβλέψας eis τὸν οὐρανόν, ™ εὐλόγησε: καὶ μαθηταῖς τοὺς ἄρτους, οἱ δὲ μαθηταὶ τοῖς ὄχλοις.
Ἀκλάσας ἔδωκε τοῖς m Ch. xxvi. κ. 26. 1 Cor.
20. καὶ έφαγον κ. 16. n Ch. xxvi.
πάντες, καὶ ἐχορτάσθησαν ' καὶ ἦραν τὸ περισσεῦον τῶν κλασμάτων, 26. Acts
δώδεκα κοφίνους πλήρεις.
πεντακισχίλιοι, χωρὶς γυναικῶν καὶ παιδίων. "«ἠνάγκασεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς Α τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ > ἐμβῆναι εἰς T° πλοῖον, καὶ Ρ προάγειν αὐτὸν eis τὸ πέραν, ἕως οὗ ἀπολύσῃ τοὺς ὄχλους. 23. καὶ ἀπολύσας τοὺς ὄχλους, ἀνέβη cis τὸ ὄρος κατ ἰδίαν ᾖ,
1 @Se αυτους in 987. 3 BLAZ omit και.
21. ot δὲ ἐσθίοντες ἦσαν ἄνδρες ὡσεὶ
li. 46 al.
A Καὶ εὐθέως ο Acts xxvi. 11. Gal. ii. 3, 14. p Ch. xxi. 31; ΧχνΙ. . Mk. X. 32.
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2 SSBC have επι του χορτον; D the sing. also, but accus. 4ο |. wanting in NBCDAZ.
5 Most uncials omit, but BXZ retain αυτου.
® B and several cursives (I, 33, 124) omit το.
= time for sending them away to get food.—amédvoov: though late for the purpose, not too late ; dismiss them forth- with.—-Ver. 16. οὐ Χρείαν ἔχουσιν ἀπελθεῖν, etc.: even if, as some think, what happened was that under the moral influence of Jesus the people present generously made the provisions they had brought with them available for the company at large, the character of Jesus appears here in a commanding light. No situation appears to Him desperate, no crisis unmanageable. No need to go. Give ye them to eat, resources will be forthcoming (cf. Exod. xiv. 15). And they were, how we cannot tell. The story is a fact supported by the testimony of all four evangelists, not a baseless legend, or a religious allegory. —Ver. 17. πέντε ἄρτους κ. 8. ἰχ. A very modest supply even for the disciple circle. They seem, under the influence of Jesus, to have been a care-free com- pany, letting to-morrow look after itself. ‘‘Learn the philosophy of the Twelve, and how they despised food. Being twelve they had only so much, and they readily gave up these” (Chrysos., H. xlix.). Five loaves and two fishes, all that was known to be in that vast gathering.—Ver. 18. φέρετε, etc.: Christ’s imperial way in critical situa- tions often arrests attention. ‘‘ Stretch forth thine hand” (xii. 13). ‘‘ Bring them hither to me.”—Ver. 19. κελεύσας, λαβὼν, ἀναβλέψας, participles without copula all leading up to εὐλόγησεν, the central chief action: rapid, condensed
W.H. place in margin.
narrative, briefly, simply, recounting an amazing event.—«vAdyyoev with accusa- tive (ἄρτους) understood. He blessed the loaves and fishes.—xat κλάσας ἔδωκεν, then dividing them gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave to the multitude.—r@ λόγῳ καὶ τῇ εὐλογίᾳ αὔξων καὶ πληθύνων αὐτούς, Origen.— Ver. 20, δώδεκα κοφ. πλ. is in appos. with τὸ περισσεῦον τ. κ. They took the surplus of the broken pieces to the extent of twelve baskets.—kodivous,
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basket of considerable size (‘‘ ein grosses Behaltniss,” Winsche). Each of the Twelve had one. The word recalls the well-known line of Juvenal (Sat. iii. 14): ‘“‘ Judaeis, quorum cophinus foenumque suppellex,”’ on which and its bearing on this place vide Schottgen (Hor. Tal.) and Elsner.—Ver. 21. πεντακισχίλιοι, 5000 men, not counting’ women and children. This helps us to attach some definite meaning to the elastic words, ὄχλος, ὄχλοι, so frequently occurring in the Gospels. Doubtless this was an excep- tionally great gathering, yet the inference seems legitimate that ὄχλος meant hundreds, and πολὺς ὄχλος thousands. Vv. 22-36. The return voyage (Mk. vi. 45-56).—Ver. 22. Ἅἠνάγκασεν: 2 strong word needing an explanation not here given, supplied in John vi. 15. Of course there was no physical compulsion, but there must have been urgency on Christ’s part, and unwillingness on the part of disciples. Fritzsche objects to special