2—13.
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9 α , ~ a αὐτῷ 6 ἀσθενῶν, '' Κύριε, ἄνθρωπον οὐκ ἔχω, ἵνα ὅταν “ταραχθῇ τὸ ε Ezek.
ὕδωρ, βάλλη µε εἰς τὴν κολυµβήθραν: πρὸ ἐμοῦ καταβαίνει. τὸν ’ κράββατόν σου, καὶ περιπάτει.
ὁ ἄνθρωπος, καὶ Ἶρε τὸν κράββατον αὐτοῦ, καὶ περιεπάτει. IO. Ἔλεγον οὖν οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι { Josh. vi.
δὲ σάββατον /év ἐκείνη TH ἡμέρα.
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XXXii. 2.
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τῷ τεθεραπευµένω, “EaBBatdv ἐστιν" οὐκ ἔξεστί σοι dpar τὸν
κράββατον.”
ἐκεῖνός µοι εἶπεν, ᾿Αρον τὸν κράββατόν σου, καὶ περιπάτει.
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* ὑγιῆ, k ver. 15; Vii. 13.
, 12. ᾿Ηρώτησαν οὖν αὐτὸν, “Tis ἐστιν 6 ἄνθρωπος 6 εἰπών σοι,
"Apov τὸν κράββατόν σου, καὶ περιπάτει; δει τίς | ἐστιν: ὁ γὰρ ᾿Ιησοῦς ™ ἐξένευσεν, ὄχλου ὄντος ἐν τῷ τόπω.
1 1. 4ο. 14. Ὁ δὲ ἰαθεὶς οὖκ πι νι. 50. 2 Kings ii 24.
1 εγειρε as in S$ABCD;; restored by modern editors in all places of its occurrence. Intrans. in Eph. v. 14, etc. ; vide Thayer, cp. ver. 41.
(healthy) ?” This question was put to attract the man’s attention and awaken hope. But the man is hopeless: it is not a question of will, he says, but of opportunity. His very weakness enabled others to anticipate him; ἐν ᾧ ἔρχομαι ἐγὼ, ‘‘ while Iam coming,” he could, then, move a little, but not quickly enough. At each bubbling up of the water, apparently only one could be healed. The ἄλλος πρὸ ἐμοῦ καταβαίνει was a great agera- vation of his case.—Ver. 8. The impo- tent man having declared his helpless- ness, Jesus says to him, Ἔγειρε a command to be obeyed on the moment by faith in Him who gave it. Cf. vi. 63, and Augustine’s ‘‘ Da quod jubes, et jube quod vis”. Gpov τὸν κράββατόν σον, “take up your pallet”. κράββατος is the Latin grabatus, and is late Greek; see Rutherford’s New Phryn., 137; and McLellan’s Greek Test., p. 106, for re- ferences and anecdote. He was com- manded to take up his bed that he might recognise that the cure was permanent. No doubt many of the cures at the pool were merely temporary. Ἠπεριπάτει “walk,” ability was given not merely to rise, but to walk. The cures wrought by Christ are perfect, and do not only give some relief.—Ver. 9. καὶ εὐθέως . . . Im- mediately on Christ’s word he became strong, and took up his bed and walked: Ἶρε aorist of one act, περιεπάτει im- perfect of continued action. Ver. το should begin with the words ἦν δὲ σάββατον, as this is the starting-point for what follows.—Ver. το. ‘It was a Sabbath on that day,” the Jews there-
fore said to him that had been healed, Σάββατόν ἐστιν, ‘It is Sabbath”. οὐκ ἔξεστί σοι Gpat τὸν κράββατον. The law is laid down in Exod. xxiii. 12; Jer. xvii. 21. ‘‘ Take heed to yourselves and bear no burden on the Sabbath day ;”’ cf. Neh. xiii. 15. The rabbinical law ran: “Whosoever on the Sabbath bringeth anything in, or taketh anything out from a public place to a private one, if he hath done this inadvertently, he shall sacrifice for his sin ; but if wilfully, he shall be cut off and shall be stoned” (Lightfoot zn loc.).—Ver. 11. The man’s reply reveals a higher law than that of the Sabbath, the fundamental principle of all Christian obedience: ‘O ποιήσας . . . περιπάτει. He that gives life is the proper authority for its use.—Ver. 12. As the healed man transferred the blame to another, ἠρώ- τησαν . . . περιπάτει.. ‘Who is the man,” rather, ‘the fellow?” ὁ ἄνθρωπος used contemptuously. As Grotius says: **Quaerunt non quod mirentur, sed quod calumnietur”.—Ver. 13. But the man could give them no information. He did not know the name of his healer. 6 γὰρ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐξένευσεν, “for Jesus had with- drawn” or ‘‘turned aside”. ἐκνεύω, from νεύω, to bend the head, rather than ἐκνέω, to swim out. Cf. Judges iv. 18 (where, however, Dr. Swete reads ἔκ- κλινον), xviii. 26. See also Thayer and Wetstein. The reason why Jesus took Himself away, and the explanation of His doing so without observation, are both given in ὄχλον ὄντος ἐν τῷ τόπω. He did not wish observation and it was easy to escape in the crowd.—Ver. 14.