350
αμ,
II. 1. Καὶ πάλιν εἰσῆλθεν 1 eis Καπερναοὺμ δι ἡμερῶν : Kal?
ἠκούσθη ὅτι εἰς οἶκόν ὃ ἐστι: 4. καὶ εὐθέως συνήχθησαν πολλοί,
a John ii.6; ὥστε µηκέτι "χωρεῖν μηδὲ τὰ πρὸς τήν θύραν" καὶ " ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς ΧΧΙ. 45. Sb ES λ ὐτό ἃ 4 b Ch. iv. 33. τὸν ᾿ λόγον. 3. Καὶ έρχονται πρὸς αὐτόν, παραλυτικὸν Φέροντες,
ο λα. 9 ε Mt.iv.6. αἱρόμενον ὑπὸ τεσσάρων. d here only.
4. καὶ μὴ δυνάµενοι προσεγγίσαι 5
ter ε Gal. iv. 15 αὐτῷ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον, *dweotéyacay τὴν στέγην ὅπου ἦν, καὶ * ἐξορύ-
(to dig out
nw 3 2 the eyes). ξαντες χαλῶσι τὸν κράββατον,ὃ ἐφ᾽ ᾧἸ 6 παραλυτικὸς Κκατέκειτο.
* εισελθων παλιν in S$BDL; probably correct just because of the halting const.
which the T.R. rectifies.
315581, omit και; for the connection of the words vide below.
7 SBDLE have εν οικω (Tisch., W.H. in text).
preferred as the more difficult.
But εις οικον (CA αἱ ) is to be
“NBL have φεροντες προς αυτον παραλνυτικον. ὕπροσενεγκαι in ΔΕΒΙ, 33 (Tisch., W.H.).
6 Spelt κραβαττον in most uncials. Τοπον in NBDL.
personally, but as referring to Jesus. He entering, etc., was heard of as being at home (Schanz and Holtzmann alter- natively).—mddw, again, a second time, i. 2I mentioning the first. He has not been there apparently since He left it {i. 35) on the preaching tour in Galilee.
t ἡμερῶν, after days, cf. Gal. ii. 1; classical examples of this use of διὰ in Wetstein and Elsner. The expression suggests a short period, a few days, which seems too short for the time re- quired for the preaching tour, even if it had been cut short by hostile influence, as is not improbable. The presence of scribes at this scene is very signifi- cant. They appear hostile in attitude on Christ’s return to Capernaum. They had probably been active before it. Fritzsche translates: interjectis pluribus diebus. For a considerable time διὰ χρόνου would be the appropriate phrase. We get rid of the ‘difficulty by connect- ing δι ἡμερῶν with ἠκούσθη (Kloster.), the resulting meaning being that days elapsed after the arrival in Capernaum before people found out that Jesus was there. He had been absent possibly for months, and probably returned quietly.— ἐν οἴκῳ or εἰς οἶκον (Τ. R.) = at home (in Peter’s house presumably) ; εἰς οἶκον suggests the idea of entrance.—Ver. 2. συνήχθησαν πολλοὶ: with the extra- ordinary incidents of some weeks or months ago fresh in their memory, a great gathering of the townspeople was inevitable.—Gore, etc.: the gathering was phenomenal; not only the house filled, but the space round about the
ep ω (T.R.) is explanatory,
door crowded—no room for more people even there (μηδὲ), not to speak of within. ---τὸν λόγον: the phrase has a secondary sound, as if an echo of the speech of the apostolic church, but the meaning is plain. Jesus was preaching the gospel of the kingdom when the following inci- dent happened. Preaching always first. —Ver. 3. €pxovrat: historic present with lively effect. The arrival creates a stir.—pépovtes: this may mean more than the four who actually carried the sick man (ὑπὸ τεσσάρων), friends accom- panying. ‘The bearers might be servants (Schanz).—Ver. 4. The particulars in this verse not in Mt., who did not care how they found their way to Jesus; enough for him that they succeeded somehow.—mpoceyyioar (T. R.): here only in N. T. to approach; προσενέγκαι (W.H.), to bring near (the sick man understood) to Him, Jesus.—dameoréya- σαν τ. σ., removed the roof, to which they would get access by an outside stair either from the street or from the οουτί.---ὅπου ἦν, where He was; where was that? in an upper room (Lightfoot and Vitringa), or in a room in a one- storied house (Holtz., H. C.), or not in a room at all, but in the atyium or com- pluvium, the quadrangle of the house (Faber, Archdol., Jahn, Archdol.). In the last-mentioned case they would have to remove the parapet (battlement, Deut. xxii. 8) and let the man down into the open space.—éfopvgavres : not some- thing additional to but explanatory of ἀπεστέγασαν = they unroofed by digging through the material—tiles, laths, and