67—72.
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ἐξ αὐτῶν ef: καὶ γὰρ Γαλιλαῖος ef, καὶ ἡ λαλιά σου ὁμοιάζει.΄ 1 71. Ὁ δὲ ἤρξατο ἀναθεματίζειν καὶ ὀμνύειν, '"Ὅτι οὐκ οἶδα τὸν
A , ἄνθρωπον τοῦτον, ὃν λέγετε.᾽
ἐφώνησε.
ἸΙησοῦς, “Ὅτι πρὶν ἀλέκτορα Φωνῆσαι Sis,> ἀπαρνήσῃ µε Tpis.”
καὶ ἐπιβαλὼν © ἔκλαιε.
72. Καὶ ὃ ἐκ δευτέρου ἀλέκτωρ Καὶ ἀνεμνήσθη ὁ Πέτρος τοῦ ῥήματος οὗ “ εἶπεν αὐτῷ 6
1 και η λαλ. σ. οµοιαζει is imported from Mt.; omitted in ΝΒΟΡΙ, (Tisch.,
W.H., Weiss). 2 opvuvas in BL al. (οµννειν in Mt.).
3 xat in S8BLD followed by ευθυς omitted in ACNXA, etc., which insert και
αλεκ. εφωνησε in ver. 68.
4 +o pnpa ως in SABCLA, corrected into the more usual του ρηµατος in some
copies.
5 B places δις before φωνησαι, and ΜΒΟΙ.Δ have τρις µε απαρνηση instead of
the order in T.R.
6 For επιβαλων εκλαιε D has ηρξατο κλαιειν, and is followed by Latin, Egyptian,
and Syriac verss., including Syr. Sin.
(4) the maid’s confidence not specified but implied in the καὶ yap, which in- troduces an additional reason; (2) Γαλιλαῖος εἶ = you are (by your speech) a Galilean. The addition in some MSS., καὶ 7 λαλία σ., etc., explanatory of the term Galilean, would be quite in Mk.’s manner, but the best authorities omit it.— Ver. 71, ἀναθεματίζειν : used absolutely, to call down curses on himself in case he was telling lies. Mt. has καταθ., which is probably a contraction from καταναθ. (in T.R.).—Ver. 72. εὐθὺς: omitted in the MSS. which insert a first cock-crow in ver. 68, as implying that this was the first crow at that hour, as in Mt.—é« δευτέρου (omitted in NL because appa- tently implying a first cock-crow during the denial, which they omit) must be understood with Weiss as referring to the second time of cock-crowing (three in the morning), the first being at mid- night.—émBakeov: another puzzle in Mk.’s vocabulary; very variously inter- preted. Most modern interpreters adopt the rendering in the A. V. and R. V., ‘‘when he thought thereon” (ἐπιβαλὼν τὸν νοῦν). Weizsacker : ‘‘ er bedachte es und weinte”. Theophylact took ἐπιβ = ἐπικαλυψάμενος τὴν κεφαλήν, having covered his head (that he might weep unrestrainedly), a rendering which Fritzsche and Field (Otium Nor.) decidedly support. Field remarks: ‘‘it may have been a trivial or colloquial word, such as would have stirred the bile of a Phrynichus or a Thomas Magister, who would have inserted it in their Index Expurgatorius, with a
caution: ἐπιβαλὼν μὴ λέγε ἀλλὰ ἐγκα- λυψάµενος ἢ ἐπικαλυψάμενος ”. Brandt (Die Ev. Gesch., p. 31), adopting a suggestion by Holwerda, thinks the original word may have been ἐκβαλὼν = going out, or flinging himself out. Klostermann ingeniously suggests : ‘stopped suddenly in his course of denial, like a man, running headlong, knocking suddenly against an obstacle in his way”. The choice seems to lie between the renderings: ‘thinking thereon” and “covering his head”.
CHAPTER XV. THE Passion History CONTINUED. — Vv. 1-5. Before Pilate (Mt. xxvii. 1-14, Lk. xxiii, 1-10).—Ver. I. εὖθὺς, mpwt, without delay, quam primum, in the morning watch, which might mean any time between three and six, but probably signifies after sunrise. --συμβούλιον will mean either a con- sultation or the result, the resolution come to, according as we adopt the reading: ποιήσαντες (Τ.Ε. = BA) or ἑτοιμάσαντες (39ΟΙ;).- καὶ ὅλον τὸ συνέδριον : the καὶ simply identifies= even the whole Sanhedrim, and does not imply that, besides the three classes previously mentioned, some others were present (¢.g., στρατηγοὺς τοῦ ἱεροῦ: Lk. xxii. 52). This added clause signifies that it was a very important meeting, as, in view of its aim, to prepare the case for Pilate, it obviously was. The San- hedrists had accomplished nothing till they had got the matter put in sucha form that they might hope to prevail with the procurator, with whom lay the jus gladit, to do their wicked will, and