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VIII. 1. ’EN ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις, παµπόλλου 1 ὄχλου ὄντος, καὶ μὴ ἐχόντων τί φΦάγωσι, προσκαλεσάµενος ὁ Ιησοῦς 3 τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ λέγει αὐτοῖς, 2. 'Σπλαγχνίζομαι ἐπὶ τὸν ὄχλον: ὅτι ἤδη ἡμέρας ὃ τρεῖς προσµένουσί por, καὶ οὐκ ἔχουσι τί φάγωσι: 3. καὶ ἐὰν ἀπολύσω αὐτοὺς νήστεις εἰς οἶκον αὐτῶν, ἐκλυθήσονται ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ"
τινὲς γὰρ αὐτῶν µακρόθεν ἤκασι.” 4
a , a tia, ¢ 4. Kat ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ οἱ
μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ, ““ Πόθεν ὅ τούτους δυνήσεταί τις ὧδε χορτάσαι ἄρτων
ἐπ᾽ ἐρημίας ; * Οἱ δὲ εἶπον, “΄ Ἑπτά.”
5. Καὶ ἐπηρώτα ὃ αὐτούς, “΄Πόσους ἔχετε ἄρτους ;* 6. Καὶ παρήγγειλε] τῷ ὄχλῳ ἀναπεσεῖν
3758 [ον A ‘ a AY « α > / ” ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς' καὶ λαβὼν τοὺς ἑπτὰ ἄρτους, εὐχαριστήσας ἔκλασε καὶ ἐδίδου τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, ἵνα παραθῶσι ὃ καὶ παρέθηκαν τῷ
1 παλιν πολλου in SBDLAZ 33.
παµπολλου is a conjectural emendation
suggested by the fact of a great crowd, and perplexity caused by παλιν here as in
vil. 14.
2 SABDLAE 33 it. vulg. cop. omit ο Ίησους, also DLA omit αντον after
αθητας.
3 ημερας = a grammatical correction for ημεραι (NL, etc.), or ηµεραις τρισιν in Β. ‘For τινες yap... ηκασι read και τινες (SSBLA) αυτων απο paxpoder
(SBDLA), εισιν (BLA). 5 ort before ποθεν in BLA. 7 παραγγελλει in ΝΕΡΙ ΙΔ.
Οπαρτεκ VIII. Ὦ3ΒΕΟΟΝΡ FEEDING. SIGN FROM HEAVEN. CURE AT ΒΕΤΗ- ‘SAIDA. CAESAREA PHILIPPI.—VvV. I-10. Second feeding (Mt. xv. 32-39).—Ver. I. ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις: a vague phrase, used only once again in this Gospel (i. 9, in reference to Jesus going from Nazareth to be baptised), indicating inability to assign to the following incident a precise historical place. Cf. Mt. iii. t for similar vague use of the expression.—mdAw πολλοῦ 6 ὄ. This well-attested reading is another indica- tion of the evangelist’s helplessness as to historical connection: there being again a great crowd. Why? where? not indicated, and we are not entitled to assert that the scene of the event was Decapolis, and the occasion the healing of the deaf-mute. The story is in the air, and this is one of the facts that have to be reckoned with by defenders of the reality of the second feeding against those who maintain that it is only a literary duplicate of the first, due to the circumstance that the Petrine version of it differed in some particulars from that in the Logia of Matthew. On this subject I do not dogmatise, but I cannot pretend to be insensible to the difficulties connected with it.—éyAov, a great crowd
όηρωτα in SBLA. § παρατιθωσιν in NBCLA 33.
again. How often the crowd figures in the evangelic story! It is the one monotonous feature in narratives of thrilling interest—Ver. 2. Vide on Mt. xv. 32.—Ver. 3. ἐκλυθήσονται, they will faint. This verb is used in N. T. in middle or passive in the sense of being faint or weary in body or mind (Gal. vi. 9, Heb. xii. 3).---καί τινες ..
εἶσίν, and some of them are from a distance, peculiar to Mark. The mean- ing is that such, even if in vigour at Starting, would be exhausted before reaching their destination. But could they not get food by the way ?—Ver. 4. πόθεν, whence? This adverb was used by the Greeks, in speaking of food, in reference to the source of supply— πόθεν oaynte = “unde cibum petituri sitis”. Examples in Kypke, Raphel, Palairet.—ém’ ἐρημίας, in a desert. The scene of the first feeding is a desert place also (chap. vi. 32). But in that case food was purchasable within a reason- able distance; not so here.—Ver. 6. Compare the meagre statement here with the picturesque description in vi. 38-40, The evangelist seems to lack interest in the twice-told tale. Ver. 7. ἰχθύδια: another of Mark’s diminutives, but Matthew has it also (xv. 34), copied
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ὄχλω.
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pata κλασμάτων, ἑπτὰ σπυρίδας.