ὄρος οὗ ἐτάξατο αὐτοῖς 6 Ιησοῦς. ψησαν αὐτῷ]: ot δὲ ἐδίστασαν.
καὶ 4 ἐπὶ 7 γῆς.
1 NBD 33 it. omit aura. Σεπι γης in NAA al. (Tisch.). δουν in BAM, verss. (W.H.).
The meeting place would be some familiar haunt, recalling many past asso- ciations and incidents, only imperfectly recorded in the Gospels. If there was such a retreat among the mountains often resorted to, it would doubtless be the scene of the hill teaching, as well as of other unrecorded disciple experiences. The disciples would need πο express direction to go there. Instinct would guide them.—Ver. 17. A very meagre statement, the whole interest of the evangelist being absorbed by the words spoken by Ἱ]εδις.- προσεκύνησαν as in ver. 9, but the men less demonstrative than the women ; no mention of seizing Jesus by the feet.—oi δὲ ἐδίστασαν: but some doubted (cf. xiv. 31, in reference to Peter). This clause seems to qualify and limit the previous statement as to the worshipping, giving this sense: they worshipped, z.¢., the most of them, for some were in doubt. So Meyer, who cites in support Klotz, Ad Devar, whose statement is to the effect that in passages of this kind containing a clause with δὲ without a pév preceding, a universal affirmation is first made and then a division follows, which shows that a uni- versal affirmation was not really in- tended (p. 358). Various methods have been adopted to get rid of the unwel- come conclusion that some of the eleven did not do homage, e¢g., by taking ἐδίστασαν as a pluperfect (Fritzsche, Grotius), or by finding the doubters among the 500 mentioned by St. Paul (x Cor. xv. 6), or even by altering the text οἱ δὲ into οὐδέ (Beza). The whole narrative is so brief and vague as to lend support to the hypothesis that in the appearance of Jesus here recorded we have not one particular occurrence, but a general picture of the Christo- phanies, in which mingled conflicting feelings of reverent recognition and hesi- tation as to the identity of the person played their part. Such is the view ef Keil, Steinmeyer, and Holtzmann {H, C.).