CHAPTER VIII.—Ver. 1.- καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἕκαστος . . . The position of these words almost necessitates the under- standing that the members of the San- hedrim are referred to. But in this case the contrast conveyed in the next clause, Ἴησους δὲ ἐπορεύθη, is pointless.—eis τὸ
ὄρος τῶν ἐλαιῶν, to the Mount of Olives.
Cf. Mt. xxiv. 3, xxvi. Lodging probably in
30; Mk. xiii. 3. the house of
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VIII. 1. *IHZOYE δὲ ἐπορεύθη εἰς "τὸ ὄρος τῶν ἸΕλαιῶν: 2.8 Zech. xiv. 3 ε a ς 4- δρθρου δὲ πάλιν "παρεγένετο cis τὸ ἱερὸν, καὶ mas ὁ λαὸς ἤρχετο Ὁ ope ν.
πρὸς αὐτόν: καὶ 'καθίσας ἐδίδασκεν αὐτούς.
γραμματεῖς καὶ of Φαρισαῖοι πρὸς
κατειλημμένην, καὶ στήσαντες αὐτὴν ἐν µέσῳ, 4. λέγουσιν αὐτῷ, τ. “«Διδάσκαλε, αὕτη ἡ γυνὴ κατελήφθη ! ' ἐπαυτοφώρω µοιχευοµένη. 5. ἐν δὲ τῷ νόµω Μωσῆς ἡμῖν ἐνετείλατο τὰς τοιαύτας Σλιθοβο-
λεῖσθαι 2: σὺ οὖν
αὐτὸν, ἵνα " ἔχωσι κατηγορεῖν αὐτοῦ.
τί λέγεις;
f Num. v. 13.
1 κατειληπται is read by W.H.R., κατειληφθη by early editors. both forms occur; see Kypke and Veitch.
ἆλιθαζειν in Tr.W.H.R.
Lazarus, He returned to the city before dawn (νετ. 2) ὄρθρου δὲ πάλιν παρεγένετο εἰς τὸ ἱερόν. Plato, Protag., 310 A, teckons ὄρθρος a part of the night.—kat πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἤρχετο, 1.6., those designated ὁ ὄχλος in the preceding chapter.—xat καθίσας, and He sat down and began to teach them. But this quiet and profit- able hour was broken in upon.—Ver. 3. ἄγουσι δὲ ot γραμματεῖς . . . κατειληµ- µένην. The scribes and the Pharisees, who in the synoptics regularly appear as the enemies of Jesus, bring to Him a woman taken in adultery. In itself an unlawful thing to do, for they had a court in which the woman might have been tried. Obviously it was to find occasion against Him that they brought her; see ver. 6. They knew He was prone to forgive sinners.—kal στήσαντες
. Tt λέγεις; “ And having set her in the midst,’’ where she could be well seen by all; a needless and shameless pre- liminary, ‘“‘they say to Him, Teacher,” appealing to Him with an appearance of deference, ‘‘ this woman here has been apprehended in adultery in the very act’’, ἐπ αὐτοφώρῳ is the better read- ing. Originally meaning ‘caught in the act of theft” (φώρ), it came to mean generally “‘ caught in the act,”’ red-hand. But also, as the instances cited by Kypke show, it frequently meant ‘‘on incon- trovertible evidence,” ‘‘ manifestly ”’. Thus in Xen., Symp., iii. 13, ἐπ᾽ αὐτο- φώρῳ εἴλημμαι πλουσιώτατος ὤν, I am evidently convicted of being the richest. See also Wetstein and Elsner.—Ver. 5. ἐν δὲ τῷ νομῷ . . . λιθοβολεῖσθαι. In Lev. xx. ro and Deut. xxii. 22 death is fixed as the penalty of adultery; but ‘“*stoning”’ as the form of death is only
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Ρ1 Sam. ΧΧΣ.6. Deut. xxii. 24.
” 9 « eA 3. ἄγουσι δὲ ot xxiv. 1. au rf x . Acts v. 21, αύτον YUVOLKG εν µοιχεια ο With εἰς in Mt. ii. Acts ix. 26 (?). Acts xiii. 14; XV. 4; commonly πρός OF ἐπί,
nd Μι. ν. τ.
3 a 6 δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς κάτω κύψας, τῷ « Exod xxii.
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specified when a betrothed virgin is violated, Deut. xxii. 23, 24. And the Rabbis held that where death simply was spoken of, strangling was meant [‘‘omnis mors dicta in Lege simpliciter non est nisi strangulatio”’]. It is sup- posed therefore that by τὰς τοιαύτας the accusers refer to the special class to which this woman belonged. The words themselves do not suggest that; and it is better to suppose that these lawyers who had brought the woman understood “stoning”? when “death”? without further specification was mentioned. See further in Lightfoot and Holtzmann. —ov οὖν τίλέγεις; “' What then sayest Thou?” as if it were possible He might give a decision differing from that of the law.—Ver. 6. τοῦτο 8... αὐτοῦ. “And this they said tempting Him,” hoping that His habitual pity would lead Him to exonerate the woman. [* Si Legi subscriberet, videri poterat sibi quodammodo dissimilis,” Calvin. προσ- εδόκων ὅτι φείσεται αὐτῆς, καὶ λοιπὸν ἔξουσι κατηγορίαν kat’ αὐτοῦ ὡς παρανό- ια. Φειδοµένου τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ νόµου