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40—52.
ἐπερωτῶντα αὐτούς.
ἐπὶ τῇ συνέσει καὶ ταῖς ἀποκρίσεσιν αὐτοῦ.
479
47. ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες οἱ ἀκούοντες αὐτοῦ,
48. Καὶ ἰδόντες αὐτόν,
a [ή ἐξεπλάγησαν: καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἡ µήτηρ αὐτοῦ εἶπε,ὶ “΄Τέκνον, τί
3 , e “a J > ατα , ας Αι 3 , 3 a , εποιησας PLY ούτως; ἰδού, ο πατηρ σου καγω ὀδυνώμενοι ἐζητοῦμέν
35 σε.
σ > ” , A LJ , 2 ὅτι ἐν τοῖς τοῦ πατρός µου δεῖ εἶναί pe;
συνῆκαν τὸ ῥῆμα ὃ ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς.
καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς Ναζαρέτ καὶ ἦν ὑποτασσόμενος αὐτοῖς.
49. Καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς, “Ti ὅτι ἐζητεῖτέ µε;
3 οὐκ δειτε 5ο. Καὶ αὐτοὶ οὗ 51. Καὶ κατέβη pet αὐτῶν, καὶ ἡ µήτηρ
αὐτοῦ διετήρει πάντα τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα» ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῆς.
a 9 A i , a4 a aX a Δ ά a 52. καὶ Ingots ᾿προέκοπτε copia * kat ἡλικίᾳα, καὶ χάριτι παρὰ
Θεῷ καὶ ἀνθρώποις.
1 ειπεν before προς αυτον in ΝΒΟΡΙ,. 2B has ζητουμεν (W.H.).
i Rom. xiii. 12. Gal. i, 14. 2 Tim. ii. 16; iii. 9.
3 SBD omit ταυτα (Tisch., W.H.).
4 ev τη σ. in WL (Tisch.) ; τη without ev in B (W.H.).
the time they had last seen Him, not implying three days’ search in Jerusalem. The place where they had lodged and the temple would be among the first places visited in the search.—év τῷ ἱερῷ: pro- bably in a chamber in the temple court used for teaching and kindred purposes. Some think it was in a synagogue beside the temple.— Ver. 46. καθεζόµ.ενον, sitting ; therefore, it has been inferred, as a teacher, not as a scholar, among (ἐν Μέσῳ) the doctors, for scholars stood, teachers only sitting. An unwelcome ‘conclusion, to which, happily, we are not shut up by the evidence, the posture- rule on which it rests being more than doubtful (vide Vitringa, Synag., p. 167). —érepwtovta: nothing unusual, and nothing unbecoming a thoughtful boy.— Ver. 47. ἐξίσταντο, were amazed, not at His position among the doctors, or at His asking questions, but at the intelli- gence (σννέσει) shown in His answers to
«πε questions of the teachers; some-
thing of the rare insight and felicity which astonished all in after years appearing in these boyish replies.—Ver. 48. t8dvres refers to the parents. This astonishment points to some contrast between a previous quiet, reserved manner of Jesus and His present bearing ; sudden flashing out of the inner life.—n µήτηρ: the mother spok@paturally ; a woman, and the mother’s heart more keenly touched. This apart fypm the peculiar relation referred to inj, Bengel’s major evat necessitudo matris.~Ver. 49. ἐν τοῖς τοῦ πατρός pov, insthe things of my Father (‘about mysFather’s busi- mess,” A. V.); therefore in a let or
house of my Father (R. Y.); the former may be the verbal translation, but the latter is the real meaning Jesus wished to suggest. In this latter rendering patristic and modern interpreters in the main concur. Note the new name for God compared with the ‘“ Highest ” and the “ Despotes” in the foregoing narra- tive. The dawn of a new era is here.— Ver. 50. ov συνῆκαν, they did not understand; no wonder! Even we do not yet fully understand.—Ver. 51. κατέβη, He went down with them, gentle, affectionate, habitually obedient (ὕποτασ- σόµενος), yet far away in thought, and solitary.—®rerjper: she did not forget, though she did not understand.—Ver, 52. προέκοπτε, steadily grew, used in- transitively in later Greek.—év τῇ σοφίᾳ και ἡλικίᾳ, in wisdom and (also as, the one the measure of the other) in stature, both growths alike real. Real in body, apparent in the mind: growth in mani- festation of the wisdom within, complete from the first—such is the docetic gloss ot ecclesiastical interpreters, making the childhood of Jesus a monstrum, and His humanity a phantom.—ydpitt π. Θ. καὶ a., in favour with God and men: beloved of all; no division even among men while the new wisdom and the new religion lay a slumbering germ in the soul of the heaven-born boy.