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τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ, ‘dv ἠγάπα 6 “Ingots: 24. © veder οὖν τούτῳ Σίμων Πέτρος fxix. 26; xx.
πυθέσθαι τίς ἂν εἴη περὶ οὗ λέγει.
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2; Xxi. 7.
25. ἐπιπεσὼν 1 δὲ ἐκεῖνος ἐπὶ τὸ gActs xxiv
26. ᾽Αποκρί-
νεται ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, “΄᾿Εκεῖϊνός ἐστιν ᾧ ἐγὼ " βάψας τὸ ψωμίον ἐπιδώσω.” 3 Β Rathii.r
, 2. , Καὶ " ἐμβάψας τὸ ψωμµίον, δίδωσιν “lovda Σίµωνος ᾿Ισκαριώτῃ. καὶ μετὰ τὸ ψωµίον, τότε εἰσῆλθεν εἰς ἐκεῖνον 6 Σατανᾶς. 9 κανει ὰ a “eo ο) i ῃ a? αὐτῷ ὁ Inoous, ““ O ποιεις, ποίησον τάχιον. - , a ἔγνω τῶν ἀνακειμένων πρὸς τί εἶπεν αὐτῷ.
27. λέγει οὖν
28. Τοῦτο δὲ οὖὐδεὶς 290. τινὲς γὰρ ἐδόκουν,
5 5 a A 7 ἐπεὶ τὸ | γλωσσόκομον εἶχεν 6 ᾿Ιούδας, ὅτι λέγει αὐτῷ 6 ᾿Ιησοῦς, i xii. 6
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τι δᾷ. νὺξ," ὅτε οὖν ἐξῆλθε.
1 αναπεσων in ΝΕΒΟΚΙ..
30. λαβὼν οὖν τὸ ψωμίον ἐκεῖνος, εὐθέως ἐξῆλθεν ὃ: ἦν δὲ
ουτως added after εκεινος in BCEF 33, ‘‘ as he was”’.
2 T.R. in SAD, it. vulg. ; Bao και δωσω avtw in BCL copt. arm. aeth. adopted
‘by Tr.TiLW.HLR. 3 εξηλθεν ευθυς in NBCD.
4 $9BCD 1, 33, it. vulg, place full stop after νυξ, and commence next paragraph
with οτε ουν εξηλθεν λεγει.
4 was lying, then, next to Jesus, his posi- tion being inside that of Jesus. To him Peter veveu, ‘‘ beckons ” (cf. νεύσω µέν τοι ἐγὼ κεφαλῇῃ, Od., xvi. 283), taking the initiative as usual, but not himself asking, perhaps because he had made so many mistakes that evening already, perbaps because a private matter might better be transacted in a whisper from John.—Ver. 25. That disciple, ἐκεῖνος, when thus appealed to, ἀναπεσὼν ἐπὶ τὸ στῆθος τοῦ ᾿μησοῦ, ‘having leant back towards the breast of Jesus” so as to speak more di- rectly to Himand to beheard only by Him. On the difference between ἀνακείμενος and ἀναπεσών see Origen in Evang. Fo., ii. 191, Brooke.—Ver. 26. But even in answer to John’s question, τίς ἐστιν: Jesus does not name Judas, but merely gives a sign by which John may recog- nise the traitor: ᾿Ἐκεῖνος . . . ἐπιδώσω, ‘the it is for whom I shall dip the sop and give it him”. Some argue from the insertion of the article τὸ ψωμίον that this was the sop made up of a morsel of lamb, a small piece of unleavened bread, and dipped in the bitter sauce, which was given by the head of the house to each guest as a regular part of the Passover ; and that therefore John as well as the Synoptists considered this to be the Pas- chal Supper. But not only is the article doubtful, see W.H., but it is an ordinary Oriental custom for the host to offer such a tid-bit to any favoured guest; and we
So Tisch. and W.H.
are rather entitled to see in the act the last appeal to Judas’ better feeling. The very mark Jesus chooses to single him out is one which on ordinary occasions was a mark of distinctive favour, At any rate he is thus all the more effectually screened from the others.—Ver. 27. But instead of moving Judas to compunction μετὰ τὸ ψωμίον, τότε εἰσῆλθεν εἰς ἐκεῖνον 6 Σατανᾶς. μετὰ “after,” not ‘ with,” ‘“‘non cum offula,’” Bengel and Cyril, who also says, οὐ γὰρ ἔτι σύµβουλον ἔχει τὸν σατανᾶν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅλης ἤδη τῆς καρδίας δεσπότην. On ἐκεῖνον Bengel also has: ‘‘Jam remote notat Judam’’. Morally he is already far removed from that com- pany. But what was it that thus finally determined Judas? Perhaps the very revulsion of feeling caused by taking the sop from Jesus: perhaps the accompany- ing words, “O ποιεῖς, ποίησον τάχιον, ‘what thou doest, do quickly”. τάχιον: “to Attic writers θάσσων (θάττων) was the only comparative, and τάχιστος the only superlative’”’. Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 150. The idea in the com- parative is ‘‘ with augmented speed,” see Donaldson’s Greek Gram., p. 390.—Ver. 28. Τοῦτο . . . αὐτῷ. All heard the command given to Judas, but none of them knew its object, not even John; for although he was now aware that Judas was the traitor he did not connect the command “ Do it quickly”’ with the actual work of betrayal.—Ver. 20. τινὲς