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Ν A a ‘ 4 καὶ ἐλθόντες διεσάφησαν τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτῶν] πάντα τὰ γενόµενα.
32. Τότε προσκαλεσάµενος αὐτὸν ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ λέγει αὐτῷ, Δοῦλε = ziti πονηρέ, πᾶσαν τὴν "ὀφειλὴν ἐκείνην ἀφῆκά σοι, ἐπεὶ παρεκάλεσάς
vii. 3.
µε' 33. οὐκ ἔδει καὶ σὲ ἐλεῆσαι τὸν σύνδουλόν σου, ὡς καὶ ἐγώ σε
ἠλέησα; 34. καὶ ὀργισθεὶς ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν τοῖς
b here only. βασανισταῖς, ἕως οὗ ἀποδῷ wav τὸ ὀφειλόμενον αὐτῷ.
35. Οὗτω
καὶ 6 πατήρ pou 6 ἐπουράνιος ὃ ποιήσει ὑμῖν, ἐὰν μὴ ἀφῆτε ἕκαστος
τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν καρδιῶν ὑμῶν τὰ παραπτώματα αὐτῶν.”
1 εαντων in BC. D has αυτων asin Τ. R. Vide below.
2 αντω omitted in BD (W.H.). 5 ovpavtos in BDL.
επονρανιος is not found elsewhere in Mt,
‘ra παρ. αντων are wanting in $$BDLX and most editors omit them.
perform would not have equalled in amount one act such as he had got the benefit of. The fact in the spiritual sphere corresponds to this.—Ver. 34. ὀργισθεὶς: roused to just and extreme anger.—Baca- νισταῖς: not merely to the gaolers, but to the tormentors, with instructions not merely to keep him safe in prison till the debt was paid, but still more to make the life of the wretch as miserable as possible, by place of imprisonment, position of body, diet, bed, etc., if not by instruments of pain. The word, chosen to suit the king’s mood, represents a subjective feeling rather than an objective fact.
Ver. 35. Application. —otrws: 990, mutatis mutandis, for feelings, motives, methods rise in the moral scale when we pass to the spiritual sphere. So in general, not in all details, on the same principle; merciless to the merciless.— ὁ πατήρ p. 6 οὐρ.: Jesus is not afraid to bring the Father in in such a connection. Rather He is here again defining the Father by discriminating use of the name, as One who above all things abhors mercilessness.—pov: Christ is in full sympathy with the Father in this.— ὑμῖν: to you, my own chosen disciples. - ἕκαστος: every man of you.—da7o τῶν καρδιῶν: from your hearts, no sham or lip pardon; real, unreserved, thorough- going, and in consequence again and again, times without number, because the heart inclines that way.
CHAPTER XIX. FAREWELL TO GALI- LEE. In Mt.’s narrative the journey of Jesus to the south, reported in ver. 1, marks the close of the Galilean ministry. Not so obviously so in Mk.’s (see notes there), though no hint is given of a return to Galilee. It is not perfectly clear
whether the incidents reported are to be conceived as occurring at the southern end of the journey, or on the way within Galilee or without. The latter alterna- tive is possible (vide Holtz., H.C., p. 214). The incidents bring under our notice a variety of interesting characters: Pharisees with captious questions, mothers with their children, a man in quest of the summum bonum, with words. and acts of Jesus corresponding. But the disciplining of the Twelve still holds the central place ofinterest. Last chap- ter showed them at school in the house, this shows them at school on the way. Vv. 1,2. Introductory, cf. Mk. x. 1.— Ver.1. καὶ ἐγένετο. . . λόγους τούτους: similar formulae after important groups of logia in vii. 28,. xi. I, xiii. 53.— µετῆρεν: also in xiii. 53, vide notes there; points to a change of scene worthy of note, as to Nazareth, which Jesus rarely visited, or to Judaea, as here. --ἀπὸ τ. Γαλιλαία. The visit to Nazareth was a movement within Gali- lee. This is a journey out of it not necessarily final, but so thought of to all appearance by the evangelist.—els τὰ ὅρια τ. ’l.a. τ. l.; indicates either the desti- nation = to the coasts of Judaea beyond the Jordan; or the end and the way = to the Judaea territory by the way οἱ Peraea, 1.6., along the eastern shore of Jordan. It is not likely that the writer would describe Southern Peraea as a part of Judaea, therefore the second alternative is to be preferred. Mk.’s statement is that Jesus went to the coasts of Judaea and (καὶ, approved read- ing, instead of διὰ τοῦ in T. R.) beyond Jordan. Weiss thinks that Mt.’s version arose from misunderstanding of Mk. But his understanding may have been a