364 IV. 1. ΚΑΙ πάλιν ἧρέξατο διδάσκειν παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν: καὶ
συνήχθη 1 πρὸς αὐτὸν ὄχλος πολύς, ὥστε αὐτὸν ἐμβάντα εἰς τὸ
πλοῖον ὃ καθῆσθαι ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ' καὶ πᾶς 6 ὄχλος πρὸς τὴν θάλασσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἦν". 2. καὶ ἐδίδασκεν αὐτοὺς ἐν παραβολαῖς
πολλά, καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ, 3. “'᾿Ακούετε. ἰδού,
ἐξῆλθεν 6 σπείρων τοῦ ὅ σπεῖραι: 4. καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ σπείρειν, ὃ
μὲν ἔπεσε παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν, καὶ ἦλθε τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ 6 καὶ κατέφαγεν αὐτό. 5. ἄλλο Se? εἶχε γῆν πολλήν: καὶ εὐθέως ἐξανέτειλε, διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν βάθος ὃ
γῆς: 6. ἡλίου δὲ ἀνατείλαντος ὃ ἐκαυματίσθη,]Ὀ καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν
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‘ a 9 > ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸ πετρῶδες, ὅπου οὐκ
1 σνναγεται in ΔΒΟΙ:Δ (modern editors).
Άπλειστος in S$BCLA (Tisch., W.H., al.),
3 ets πλοιον εµβαντα in BCL. DA have same order with το before πλοιον. 4noav in NBCLA 33. ην is a gram. cor.
549B omit tov, found in CLA. 6 Omit του ovpavov ΝΑΒΟΙΙΔΣ. 7 και αλλο (αλλα D 33) in NBCLA.
8 βαθος γης in SACLAYX, but B has της y., and perhaps this is the true read.
ing, though recent editors adopt the other.
9 και οτεανετειλεν ο ηλιος in NBCLA.
Τ.Ε. conforms to Mt.
10 BD have εκαυµατισθησαν (W.H. margin).
serving as a sample.—év τῇ διδαχῇ a. In the teaching of that day He said inter alia what follows,—Ver. 3. axovere: hear! listen! a summons to attention natural for one addressing a great crowd from a boat, quite compatible with ἰδού, which introduces the parable (against Weiss in Meyer). The parable is given here essentially as in Mt., with only slight variations: σπεῖραι (νετ. 3) for σπείρειν; ὃ μὲν (ver. 4) for ἃ pev, ἄλλο (vv. 5, 7) for ἄλλα. To the statement that the thorns choked the grain (συνέ- πνιξαν αὐτό), Mk. adds (ver. 7) καὶ καρπὸν οὐκ ἔδωκεν, an addition not superfluous in this case, as it would have been in the two previous, because the grain in this case reaches the green ear. To be noted further is the expansion in ver. 8, in reference to the seed sown on good soil. Mt. says it yielded fruit (ἐδίδου καρπὸν), Mk. adds ἀναβαίνοντα καὶ αὐξανόμενα, καὶ ἔφερεν, all three phrases referring to ἄλλα at the be- ginning of the verse. The participles taken along with ἐδίδου καρπὸν dis- tinguish the result in the fourth case from those in the three preceding. The first did not spring up, being picked up by the birds, the second sprang up but did not grow, withered by the heat, the
third sprouted and grew up but yielded no (ripe) fruit, choked by thorns (Grotius). ---καὶ ἔφερεν introduces a statement as to the quantity of fruit, the degrees being arranged in a climax, 30, 60, τοο, instead of in an anti-climax, as in Mt., 100, 60, 30.—Ver. 9. καὶ ἔλεγεν: this phrase is wanting in Mt., and the summons to reflection is more pithily expressed there = who hath ears let him hear. The summons implies that under- standing is possible even for those with- out.
Vv. 10-12. Disciples ask an explana- tion of the parable (Mt. xiii. 10-17, Lk, Vili. 9-10). Ver. 10. κατὰ µόνας (ὁδούς or χώρας understood), alone—oi περὶ αὐτὸν, those about Him, not = of παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ (iii. 21), nor =the Twelve, who are separately mentioned (σὺν τ. δωδ.); an outer circle of disciples from which the Twelve were chosen.—tas παραβολάς, the parables, spoken that day. They asked Him about them, as to their mean- ing. ‘The plural, well attested, implies that the parables of the day had a common drift. To explain one was to explain all. They were a complaint of the com- parative fruitlessness of past efforts.— Ver. 11. ἡμῖν, to you has been given, so as to be a permanent possession, the