aS
vi
πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ "Ingots, 18. 7 τε θάλασσα ἀνέμου peyddou πνέοντος
r Cp. Jon. 1. Σ διηγείρετο. I
Lk. viii.
A [ή 29. Jas. καὶ Ἰ ἐγγὺς τοῦ πλοίου γινόμενον καὶ " ἐφοβήθησαν.
iii. 4.
t Mk. vi. 49. λέγει αὐτοῖς, ''᾿Εγώ εἰμι' μὴ φοβεῖσθε.”
u Job ix. 8.
19. "€Andaxdtes οὖν ὡς σταδίους εἰκοσιπέντε ἢ s Mk. vi. ᾳ8.τριάκοντα ᾿θεωροῦσι τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν περιπατοῦντα
"ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης, 20. ὁ δὲ 21. Ἠθελον οὖν λαβεῖν
ν With gen. αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, καὶ εὐθέως τὸ πλοῖον ἐγένετο ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς εἰς
Παν ασ. ες - 18; ερ.ῖν. ην υπηγογ. 5.
w Lk. xxiv. 37.
μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ,”
ὅτι πλοιάριον ἄλλο οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖ εἰ μὴ Ev ἐκεῖνο eis ὃ
22. TH ἐπαύριον ὁ ὄχλος ὁ ἑστηκὼς πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης, ἰδὼν 1
ὃ ἐνέβησαν οἱ
καὶ ὅτι οὐ συνεισῆλθε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ ὁ ᾿Ρησοῦς
1 ειδον read by T.Tr.W.H.R. as in ABL vet. Lat., etc.
2 The clause εκεινο . .
crowd. Now He detached Himself even trom His disciples. [μὴ παρέχων μηδὲ τούτοις ἀφορμὴν, Οτίρεπ.] The Syn- optic account is supplementary. The disciples remained behind with fragments of the crowd, but, when it became late, they went down to the sea, and having got on board a (not ‘‘the’’) boat, they were coming across to Capernaum [Mark says Jesus told them to go to Bethsaida, but that is quite consistent, as they may have meant to land at the one place and walk to the other] on the other side, and it had already become dark, and Jesus had not, or “' not yet,’”’ come to them, and the sea was rising owing to a strong wind blowing.—Ver. 19. éAnAakdtes οὖν ὡς σταδίους εἰκοσιπέντε ἢ τριάκοντα. The Vulgate renders ‘‘cum remigassent ergo,’ and modern Greek ἐκωπηλάτησαν, rightly; see Aristoph., Frogs, 195; and other passages in Elsner. The stadium was about 194 (Rich gives 202) yards, so that nine rather than eight would go to a mile. The disciples had rowed about three miles. [The best discussion of the direction they were taking is in the Rob Roy on the $ordan, p. 374.] θεωροῦσι τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν περιπατοῦντα ἐπ' τῆς θαλάσσης ‘they see Jesus walking on the sea’’. It has been suggested that this may only mean that Jesus was walk- ing ‘“‘ by” the sea, ἐπί being used in this sense in xxi. I. But that ἐπί can mean “on” the sea is of course not questioned (see Lucian’s Vera Historia, where this incident is burlesqued; also Job ix. 8, where, to signalise the power of God, He is spoken of as 6 περιπατῶν ὡς ἐπ᾽ ἐδάφους ἐπὶ θαλάσσης). Besides, why should the disciples have been afraid had they merely seen Jesus walking on the shore? They manifested their fear in
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some way, and He says to them, Ἐγώ εἰμι, 1am He, or It is 1.—Ver. 20. Hear- ing this, ἤθελον οὖν λαβεῖν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, by which Liicke, Holtzmann, Weiss, Thayer, and others suppose it is meant, that they merely wished to take Him into the boat, but did not actually do so. The imperfect tense favours this sense; and so do the expressions ἤθελον πιάσαι αὐτόν, vii. 44; and ἤθελον αὐτὸν ἐρωτῷν, xvi. 19; whereas two of the passages cited against this meaning by Alford are in the aorist, a tense which denotes accomplished purpose. On the other hand, the imperfect may here be used to express a continuous state of feeling, and accordingly the A.V., follow- ing the Geneva Bible, against Wiclif and Tindale, rendered ‘they willingly re- ceived Him”. So Grotius “non quod non receperint, sed quod cupide ad- modum’”’. So, too, Sanday: ‘‘ The stress is really on the willingness of the dis- ciples, ‘ Before they shrank back through fear, but now they were glad to receive Him’”. And this seems right. The R.V. has ‘they were willing therefore to receive Him into the boat”. The καί with which the next clause is introduced is slightly against the supposition that Jesus was not actually taken into the boat (but see Weiss im loc.); and the Synoptic account represents Jesus as getting into the boat with Peter. The immediate arrival at the shore was evi- dently a surprise to those on board. Sanday thinks that the Apostle was so occupied with his devout conclusions that he did not notice the motion of the boat.