15—23.
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ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν ὡς κόκκον σινάπεως, ἐρεῖτε TH Sper τούτῳ Μετάβηθι ” évredbev! *éxet, καὶ µεταβήσεται: καὶ οὐδὲν 5 ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν. α ota .) ner
21. τοῦτο δὲ τὸ γένος οὐκ ἐκπορεύεται, εἰ μὴ ἐν προσευχῇ καὶ and ite. xvi.
4 , oe 2 νηστεία.
(vide * critical
22. ΑΝΑΣΤΡΕΦΟΜΕΝΩΝ ὃ δὲ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ, εἶπεν αὐτοῖς note there).
vide Ch. il.
ς A ε A > α ο 6 "Ingots, “ὁΜέλλει ὁ vids τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοσθαι eis χεῖρας 22 for
similar use.
ἀνθρώπων, 23. καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσιν αὐτόν, καὶ τῇ τρίτη ἡμέρᾳ ἐγερθή- ρ Lk. i. 37
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setar. * Καὶ ἐλυπήθησαν σφόδρα.
1 µεταβα in NB; ενθεν in NBD.
(Gen. xviii. 14).
2 This whole verse is wanting in ΑΒ 33, some Latin verss., Syrr. verss. (Cur.
Hier. Sin.). foisted into the text.
CDLAZz and many other uncials have it.
It is doubtless a gloss
ΜΒ 1 it. vg. have συστρεφοµενων; changed into the more easily understood
αναστρ. (T. R.). 4B has αναστησεται (W.H. margin).
That was a part of the truth at least, and the part it became them to lay to Πεατί.- -ἀμὴν, introducing, as usual, a weighty saying.—éav ἔχητε, if ye have, a present general supposition.—kéKKov σινάπεως proverbial for a small quantity (xiii. 31), a minimum of faith. The purpose is to exalt the power of faith, not to insinuate that the disciples have not even the minimum. Schanz says they had no miracle faith (‘‘ fides miracu- lorum”),—1@ Sper τούτῳ, the Mount of Transfiguration visible and pointed to. —peraBa (-βηθι T. R.), a poetical form of imperative like ἀνάβα in Rev. iv. 1. Vide Schmiedel’s Winer, p. 115.—€vOev éxet for ἐντεῦθεν ἐκεῖσε.--μεταβήσεται : said, done. Jesus here in effect calls faith an ‘“‘uprooter of mountains,” a phrase current in the Jewish schools for a Rabbi distinguished by legal lore or personal excellence (Lightfoot, Hor. Heb., ad Mt. xxi. 21, Winsche).— ἀδυνατήσει used in the third person singular only in N. T. with dative = to be impossible; a reminiscence of Mk. ix. 23 (Weiss).—Ver. 21. Vide on Mk. ix. 20.
Vv. 22-23. Second announcement of the Passion (Mk. ix. 30, 31; Lk. ix. 44, 45)-—Ver. 22. συστρεφοµένων a., while they were moving about, a reunited band. —év τ. Γ.: they had got back to Galilee when the second announcement was made, Mk. states that though returned to familiar scenes Jesus did not wish to be recognised, that He might carry on undisturbed the instruction of the Twelve.—péAde, etc. : the great engross- ing subject of instruction was the
doctrine of the εγοῦ».--παραδίδοσθαι: a new feature not in the first announce- ment. Grotius, in view of the words εἰς χεῖρας ἀνθρώπων, thinks the reference is to God the Father delivering up the Son. It is rather to recent revelations of dis- affection within the disciple-circle. For if there were three disciples who showed some receptivity to the doctrine of the cross, there was one to whom it would be very unwelcome, and who doubtless had felt very uncomfortable since the Caesarea announcement.—wapad. con- tains a covert allusion to the part He is to play.—Ver. 23. ἐλυπήθησαν σφόδρα, they were all greatly distressed; but no one this time ventured to remonstrate or even to ask a question (Mk. ix. 32). The prediction of resurrection seems to have counted for nothing.
Vv. 24-27. The temple tax.—In Mt. only, but unmistakably a genuine historic reminiscence in the main. Even Holtz- mann (H. C.) regards it as history, only half developed into legend.—Ver. 24. εἰς Καπ.: home again after lengthened wan- dering with the satisfaction home gives even after the most exhilarating holiday excursions.—Ver. 24. mpoo7\Goyv oi, etc. : home-coming often means return to care. Here are the receivers of custom, as soon as they hear of the arrival, de- manding tribute. From the Mount of Transfiguration to money demands which one is too poor to meet, what a descent! The experience has been often repeated in the lives of saints, sons of God, men of ρεπίας.- τὰ δίδραχµα: a δίδραχµον was a coin equal to two Attic drachmae, and to the Jewish half shekel