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44. καὶ ἦσαν οἱ φαγόντες τοὺς ἄρτους ὡσεὶ 1 45. Καὶ εὐθέως ἠνάγκασε τοὺς μαθητὰς
αὐτοῦ ἐμβῆναι eis τὸ πλοῖον, καὶ προάγειν εἰς τὸ πέραν πρὸς
Βηθσαϊδάν, ἕως αὐτὸς ἀπολύσῃ 3 τὸν ὄχλον.
46. καὶ ™ ἀποταξά- n Lk. ix. 61;
κ Ξ xiv. 33. µενος αὗτοῖς, ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος προσεύξασθαι. 47. Καὶ ὀψίας Acts xviii
yevonévns, ἦν τὸ πλοῖον ἐν µέσῳ «Τῆς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
θαλάσσης, καὶ αὐτὸς μόνος
48. Καὶ εἶδεν ὃ αὐτοὺς βασανιζοµένους ἐν τῷ
ἐλαύνειν: ἦν γὰρ ὁ ἄνεμος ἐναντίος αὐτοῖς. καὶ ὃ περὶ τετάρτην
φυλακὴν τῆς νυκτὸς ἔρχεται πρὸς
θαλάσσης: καὶ ἤθελε παρελθεῖν αὐτούς.
> , ~ 8 lol αὐτούς, περιπατῶν ἐπὶ τῆς 49. οἱ δὲ ἰδόντες αὐτὸν
περιπατοῦντα ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης," ἔδοξαν φάντασμα εἶναι ῦ καὶ
ἀνέκραξαν: 50. πάντες γὰρ αὐτὸν εἶδον, καὶ ἐταράχθησαν.
NY και
εἰθέωςϐ ἐλάλησε per αὐτῶν, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, -' Θαρσεῖτε: ἐγώ
εἰμι, μὴ φοβεῖσθε.”
51. Καὶ ἀνέβη πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, καὶ
A ” LA 4 ἐκόπασεν 6 ἄνεμος ’ καὶ λίαν ἐκ περισσοῦ T ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἐξίσταντο, καὶ
'SBDLA omit ωσει.
2 απολνει in NBL.
απολνση is from Mt.
5 .8wv in $$BDLA, which (D excepted) also omit και before περι τεταρτην
φυλακην. 4 επι τ. θ. περιπ. in NBLA 33.
ειδεν και is a simplification of the construction.
> ort φαγτασμµα εστιν in SBLA 33 (Tisch., W.H.).
8 o Se ευθυς in NBLA.
7SSBLA omit ex περισσου (W.H.). It suits the situation and may have fallen out by oversight, or been omitted as superfluous, though really not so.
be few, therefore probably not referred to by Mk.
Vv. 45-52. Another sea-anecdote (Mt. xiv. 22-33). Luke drops out here and does not join his brother evangelists till we come to viii. 27.—Ver. 45. εὐθὺς: no time to lose; it was getting late.— ἠνάγκασε, vide on Mt.—eis τὸ πέραν : we are apt to take this as a matter of course as = to the other (western) side of the lake, and consequently to assume that πρὸς Βηθσαϊδάν points to a Beth- saida there, distinct from Bethsaida Julias (John i. 44). But the expression εἰς τ. π. may mean from the south end of the plain El Batiha, on the eastern side, to the north end towards Bethsaida Julias, the rendezvous for the night. In that case the contrary wind which over- took the disciples would be the prevailing wind from the north-east, driving them in an opposite direction away from Bethsaida towards the western shore. This is the view advocated by Furrer. Vide Zeitschrift des Paldstina-Vereins, B. ii. (1879). Holtz., H. C., thinks that either this view must be adopted or the true reading in the clause referring to B.
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must be that represented in some Latin copies: ‘“‘trans fretum a Bedsaida,” C. Veron. ; ‘a Bethsaida,”’ C. Monac.—Ver. 46. ἀποταξάμενος, having dismissed them, {1.6., the multitude; late Greek condemned by Phryn., p. 23 (ἔκφυλον πάνυ).---Ύετ. 48. ἐν τῷ ἐλαύνειν, in pro- pelling (the ship with οα19).-- περὶ τετ. Φυλ., about the fourth watch, between three and six in the morning, towards ἀαννη.---ἤθελε παρελθεῖν, He wished to pass them—‘ praeterire eos,” Vul. ; it ap- peared so to them.—Ver. 50. Not quite an instance of Mark’s habit of iteration: explains how they came to think it was a phantasm. All saw what looked like Jesus, yet they could not believe it was He, areal man, walking on the water ; therefore they took fright and rushed to the conclusion: a spectre!—Ver. 51. ἑκόπασεν, asin iv. 30---λίαν ἐκ περισσοῦ. very exceedingly, a double superlative, a most likely combination for Mark, though ἐκ περ. is wanting in some im- portant MSS. and omitted in W.H. Cf. ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ in Eph. iii. 2ω.--- Ver. 52 reflects on the astonishment of the Twelve as blameworthy in view of
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186 ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΡΚΟΝ VI. 52—s6.
3 , 3 ~ ae a ,
ἐθαύμαζον.ὶ 52. οὐ γὰρ συνῆκαν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἄρτοις' ἦν γὰρ ἡ καρδία