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sv.19 | αὐτήν. Num. xvi. | - 29. ἐμαυτοῦ.
τε πα, Es Wisd.xvi. λαβεῖν αὐτήν.
u ix. 16.
ν Vii. 20; .
viii. 48. τούτους. Wisd.v.4. w 4 ’ > a , ”
w Mk. iii. ο μαίνεται" τί αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε; 21. Acts XXVi. 24.
Wisd. - ” xiv. 28. ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀνοίγειν ; x Mt. iv, 24. y Acts iii. II; ν. 12 z Lk. xxi. 20, ACTS . ο xiv.z0. PWVTOS.
a Mt. xvii. cca? S S ε an Ὁ 17. Rev. Έως πότε τὴν ψυχὴν ἡμῶν vi. Io, only in N.T. b Ezek. xxiv. 25.
18. οὐδεὶς αἴρει αὐτὴν dm’ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐγὼ τίθηµι αὐτὴν * ἀπ᾿
*éfouciavy exw θεῖναι αὐτὴν, καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχω πάλιν ταύτην τὴν ἐντολὴν ἔλαβον παρὰ τοῦ πατρός µου. 19. "Σχίσμα οὖν πάλιν ἐγένετο ἐν τοῖς ᾿Ιουδαίοις διὰ τοὺς λόγους 20. ἔλεγον δὲ πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν, “* Δαιμόνιον ἔχει καὶ
21. Άλλοι ἔλεγον, “Taira τὰ
ῥήματα οὖκ ἔστι ” δαιμονιζοµένου: μὴ δαιµόνιον δύναται τυφλῶν
22.᾽ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟ δὲ] τὰ ἐγκαίνια ἐν τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις, καὶ χειμὼν ἦν: 23. καὶ περιεπάτει 6 ‘Ingots ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἐν τῇ ” στοᾷ τοῦ Σολο- 24. ” ἐκύκλωσαν οὖν αὐτὸν οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι, καὶ ἔλεγον αὐτῷ,
aipes; et σὺ et & Χριστὸς, εἰπὲ
1 τοτε is read instead of δε by W.H. on the authority of BL 33 and some versions. This reading would connect this paragraph with the foregoing, and the interval of two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and Dedication would be placed
between chs. vili. and ix.
It has been suggested that τα εγκαινια may here mean
the Dedication of Solomon’s Temple, which coincided with the Feast of Tabernacles.
This is not likely. The reading of Τ.Ε. ΝΑΡ and most other uncials, vulg. goth.
His life again. He was not compelled to die.—Ver. 18. otdeis . . . ἐμαυτοῦ. He did not succumb to the machinations of His foes. To the last He was free to choose another exit from life; Mt. xxvi. 53. He gave His life freely, perceiving that this was the Father’s will: ἐξουσίαν ... pov, Others have only power to choose the time or method of their death, and not always that: Jesus had power absolutely to lay down His life or to retain it. Others have no power at all to resume their life after they had laid it down. He has. This freedom, as Weiss remarks, does not clash with the instrumentality of the Jews in taking His life, nor with the power of God in raising Him αραϊπ.---ταύτην τὴν ἐντολὴν. “This commandment ” thus to dispose of His life and to resume it He has received from the Father. In this as in all else He is fulfilling the will and pur- pose of God.
——Wv. 19-21. The result of this discourse briefly described.—Ver. 19. As usual, diverse judgments were elicited, and once more a division of opinion appeared, Σχίσμα οὖν πάλιν éyevero... Many thought Him possessed and mad, as in Mk, iii, 21; cf. οὐ µαίνοµαι of Paul, Acts xxvi. 24. Others took the more sensible view. These words they had heard were not the wild exclamations and ravings they usually heard from
is strongly authenticated, being found in syt., είς.
demoniacs; and His acts, such as open- ing the blind man’s eyes, were not within the compass of a demon.
Vv. 22-39. Sayings of Fesus at the Feast of Dedication.—Ver. 22. ᾿Εγένετο δὲ τὰ ἐγκαίνια. The ἐγκαίνια (Ezra vi. 16) was the annual celebration of the re- consecration of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus after its defilement by Antiochus Epiphanes (x Mace. i. 20-60, iv. 36-57).---ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις. The feast might be celebrated elsewhere, and the place may be specified because Jesus had been absent from Jerusalem and now returned.—yetpav ἦν, not “it was stormy weather’? (Plummer) but ‘‘it was winter”’’; inserted for the sake of Gentile readers and to explain why Jesus was teaching under cover. The feast was held in December, the 25th, Chisleu. See Edersheim, Life of ¥esus, ii. 226.--καὶ περιεπάτει . . . Σολομῶντος [better Σολομῶνος].--Ψετ. 23. For the sake of shelter Jesus was walking with His disciples [περιεπάτει] in Solomon’s Porch, a cloister on the east side of the Temple area (Joseph., Anézq., xx. 9, 7) apparently reared on some remain- ing portions of Solomon’s building.— Ver. 24. Here the Jews ἐκύκλωσαν αὐτόν, “ringed Him round,” preventing His escape and with hostile purpose ; cf. Plutarch’s Them., xii. 3. Their atti- tude corresponded to the peremptory