‘a craving for rest and retirement; a
disinclination to be drawn into a ministry” among a heathen people, which would mar the unity of His career as a prophet of God to Israel (the drama of His life to serve its purpose must respect the limits of time and place); a secret inclination to do this woman a kindness if it could in any way be made exceptional; and last but not least, a feeling that her request was really not isolated but representative =the Gentile world in her inviting Him, a fugitive from His own land, to come over and help them, an omenofthetransference | of the kingdom from Jewish to Pagan soil.
22—31.
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27. Ἡ δὲ εἶπε, “Ναί, κύριε: καὶ yap! τὰ κυνάρια ἐσθίει ἀπὸ τῶν
ψιχίων τῶν *
28. Τότε ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῇ, ““Ὦ γύναι, µεγάλη σου
ἢ mlotis> γενηθήτω σοι ὡς θέλεις. ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης.
, y a t ~ , Αα 22 ae πιπτοντων ἀπὸ της τραπεζης των κυριων αὐτων. s Mk. vii.
28, Lk. ΧΝΥΙ. 21
: ji ΚΕ). Καὶ ἰάθη ἡ θυγάτηρ abrist same phr. in Lk. xvi. 21.
20. Καὶ μεταβὰς ἐκεῖθεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἦλθε παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς
Γαλιλαίας: καὶ ἀναβὰς εἰς τὸ ὄρος, ἐκάθητο ἐκεῖ.
ο και
30.
προσῆλθον αὐτῷ ὄχλοι πολλοί, ἔχοντες pel ἑαυτῶν χωλούς, τυφ-
Rous, κωφούς, "κυλλούς,” καὶ ἑτέρους πολλούς, καὶ ἔρριψαν αὐτοὺς u Ch. xviii.
παρὰ τοὺς πόδας τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ Σ καὶ ἐθεράπευσεν αὐτούς' 31. ὥστε 43.
Mk. ix
τοὺς ὄχλους θαυμάσαι, βλέποντας κωφοὺς Aadodvtas,® κυλλοὺς ὑγιεῖς δ χωλοὺς περιπατοῦντας, καὶ τυφλοὺς βλέποντας: καὶ
1B omits yap, which therefore W H. bracket.
fallen out per incuriam,
by late MSS. 3 avtov for του |. in SBDL.
5 B has ακονοντας.
Vv. 25-28. Entreaty renewed at close quarters with success—Ver. 25. ἡ δὲ ἐλθοῦσα, etc. Probably the mother read conflict and irresolution.in Christ’s face, and thence drew encouragement.—Ver. 26. οὐκ ἔστιν καλὸν, etc.: seemingly a hard word, but not so hard as it seems. First, it is not a simple monosyllabic negative, leaving no room for parley, but an argument inviting further dis- cussion. Next, it is playful, humorous, bantering in tone, a parable to be taken cum grano. Third, its harshest word,
' «xvvaptots, contains a loophole. κυνάρια does not compare Gentiles to the dogs without, in the street, but to the house-
, hold dogs belonging to the family, which got their portion though not the chil- dren’s.—-Ver. 27. vat, κύριε’ καὶ γὰρ, etc.: eager assent, not dissent, with a gleam in the eye on perceiving the advantage given by the comparison = Yes, indeed, Lord, for even, etc. Kypke cites an instance from Xenophon of the combina- tion ναί καὶ yap in the same sense.—
4 ψιχίων, dimin. from wig, a bit, crumb, found only in N. T. (here and Mk. vii. 28, Lk. xvi. 21 T. R.), another diminutive answering to κυνάρια = the little pet dogs, eat of the minute morsels. Curi- ously felicitous combination of ready wit, humility and faith: wit in seizing on the playful κυνάρια and improving on it by adding ψιχία, humility in being content with the smallest crumbs, faith
As Weiss suggests it may have
It seems needed, vide below. Yet vide Mk.
3 The order in which these four words (χωλους, etc.) are given varies. κυλλους before τυφλους, which W.H. adopt.
B has The order of T.R. is supported only
4 τον οχλον in NCDA. ® 88 omits this clause.
in conceiving of the healing asked as only such a crumb for Jesus to give.— Ver. 28. Immediate compliance with her request with intense delight in her faith, which may have recalled to mind that of another Gentile (Mt. viii. 10).— ὦ γύναι: exclamation in a tone enriched by the harmonies of manifold emotions. What a refreshment to Christ’s heart to pass from that dreary pestilential tradi- tionalism to this utterance of a simple unsophisticated moral nature on Pagan soil! The transition from the one scene to the other unconsciously serves the purposes of consummate dramatic art. Vv. 29-31. Return to the Sea of Galilee (Mk. vii. 31-37).—Ver. 20. παρὰ τ. 0. +. Γαλ., to the neighbourhood of the Sea of Galilee; on which side? According to Mk., the eastern, ap- proached by a circuitous journey through Sidon and Decapolis. Weiss contends that Mt. means the western shore. The truth seems to be that he leaves it vague. His account is a meagre colourless re- production of Mk.’s. He takesno interest in the route, but only in the incidents at the two termini. He takes Jesus north to the borders of Tyre to meet the woman of Canaan, and back to Galilee to feed the multitude a second time.—eis τὸ ὄρος, as in ν. 1, and apparently for the same purpose: ἐκάθητο é., sat down there to teach. This ascent of the hill bordering the lake is not in Mk.—Ver. ν