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17. Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς 1 ets ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου, εἶπε,ὶ “΄ Διδάσκαλε, 18. καὶ
19. Ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ,"
20. Καὶ ἤνεγκαν αὐτὸν
492 3 , » αὐτούς ; A} 3 4 ce ό ” a ν b Ch. vii. ὤνεγκα τὸν υἱόν µου πρός σε, ἔχοντα πνεῦμα ” ἄλαλον. 37. chereand ὅπου ἂν αὐτὸν καταλάβῃ, ῥήσσει αὐτόν: καὶ ᾿ἀφρίζει, καὶ * tpiter ver. 20. 4 , A ’ a dhere only. τοὺς ὀδόντας αὐτοῦ,” καὶ *Enpatverar: καὶ εἶπον τοῖς μαθηταῖς σου e Ch. ili. 1. ο ip TAs a 3 ” 35 ἵνα αὐτὸ ἐκβάλωσι, καὶ οὐκ ἴσχυσαν. 3” a f pera λέγει, 'Ὢ yeved ἄπιστος, ἕως πότε πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἔσομαι; ἕως πότε ohn x. 24. ; Μι ο vi. ἀνέξομαι ὑμῶν; Φέρετε αὐτὸν πρός pe. 10 (ews πότε].
πρὸς αὐτόν: καὶ ἰδὼν αὐτόν, εὐθέως τὸ πνεῦμα ἐσπάραξεν * αὗτόν - 4 a ~ ,
καὶ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἐκυλίετο ἀφρίζων. 21. Kal ἐπηρώτησε τὸν
πατέρα αὐτοῦ, “ Πόσος χρόνος ἐστίν, ὡς τοῦτο Ὑέγονεν αὐτῷ;
Ὁ δὲ εἶπε, “΄ Παιδιόθεν.” 22. καὶ πολλάκις αὐτὸν καὶ eis tip ὃ
ἔβαλε καὶ eis ὕδατα, ἵνα ἀπολέσῃ αὐτόν: GAN εἴ τι δύνασαι,
1 απεκριθη αντω without ειπε in SHBDLA 33.
2 Omit αντον ΞΒΟΡΙ/Δ 33.
4 ro mv. evdus cuveotmapatey in SBCLA 33.
6 αντον after και εις πυρ in SBCLA.
reappears, when He is not looked for, when He is needed, and when His name is being taken in vain, perhaps not with- out a certain sympathy on the part of the volatile crowd not accustomed hitherto to miscarriage of attempts at healing when the name of Jesus was invoked. In that case their feeling would be a compound of confusion and gladness— ashamed and yet delighted to see Him, both betrayed in their manner.—Ver. 16. ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτούς, He asked them, t.é., the people who in numbers ran to meet Him. Jesus had noticed, as He drew near, that there was a dispute going on in which the disciples were concerned, and not knowing the composition of the crowd, He proceeds on the assumption that they had all a share in it = the crowd as a whole versus the nine.—Ver. 17. The father of the sick boy answers for the company, explaining the situation, laying the main stress of course on the deplorable condition of his child.—apés σε, to thee, not aware that Jesus was absent.—mvevpa ἅλαλον, a dumb spirit ; the boy dumb, and therefore by inference the spirit.—Ver. 18. λάβῃ, wherever it happens to seize him. The possession (ἔχοντα, ver. 17) is con- ceived of as intermittent; “the way of the spirit inferred from the characteristic phenomena of the disease” (Zhe Mira- culous Element in the Gospels, p. 181). Then follows a graphic description of the ensuing symptoms: spasms (ῥήσσει, a late form of ῥήγνυμι), foaming (ἀφρίζει
ὅπου ἂν a. κατα---
3 avtots in ΝΑΒΡΙ Δ 33. 5 ex παιδ. in SBCILA 33. Τδυνη in SBDILA.
from ἀφρός: he, the boy, foameth), grinding of the teeth (. pifer 7. 68.), then the final stage of motionless stupor graphically described as withering (ξη- paiverat), for which Euthy. gives as an equivalent ἀναισθητεῖ, and Weizsacker ‘und wird starr’’.
Ver. 19. The complaint of Fesus, vide on Matthew.—Observe the πρὸς ὑμᾶς instead of Matthew’s μεθ ὑμῶν. = how long shall I be in relations with you, have to do with you?—Ver. 20. ἰδὼν may be taken as referring to the boy (Schanz), in which case we should have an anacolouthistic nominative for the accusative, the writer having in view to express his meaning in passives (ἐκυλ-. fero) ; or to the spirit (πνεῦμα) by a con- struction ad sensum = the spirit seeing Jesus made a last attack (Weiss in Meyer, et al.). This is most in keeping with the mode of conceiving the matter natural to the evangelist. The visible fact was a fresh fit, and the explanation, from the possession point of view, that the spirit, seeing Jesus, and knowing that his power was at an end, made a final assault.— Ver. 21>, ὥς: a particle of time, here as