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i Dan. i. 13. 23. /Εξηλθεν οὖν ὁ λόγος οὗτος εἰς τοὺς ; ἀδελφοὺς, "OTL 6 μαθητὴς t. ΙΧ.
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ἐκεῖνος οὐκ ἀποθνήσκει '᾿ 1 Here only
‘ > 5 Be A yen 3 a 9 > και ουκ είπεν αυτω ο Ingous, οτι οὐκ
in Gospp., ἀποθνήσκει' ἀλλ’, ''᾿Εὰν αὐτὸν θέλω µένειν ἕως ἔρχομαι, τί πρός
freq. in ae
k xx, 30. 1 x Cor. xiv.
31. Acts TAUTA* καὶ οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἀληθής ἐστιν ἡ µαρτυρία αὐτοῦ.
XXi. 19.
24. ΟΥΤΟΣ ἐστιν 6 μαθητὴς 6 μαρτυρῶν περὶ τούτων, καὶ γράψας
25. ἔστι
Eph. v.33. δὲ καὶ " ἄλλα πολλὰ ὅσα ἐποίησεν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, ἅτινα ἐὰν γράφηται
Gen. xiii. G52 , Chron. iv. βιβλία. 5
᾽Αμήν.!
1 Tisch. omits this verse with 9”.
χωρησαι of AC?7D χωρησειν is found in BC*.
.. . τες ‘Lord, and this man, what of him ?”’—Ver. 22. To which Jesus replies with a shade of rebuke, Ἐὰν . . . µοι. Peter, in seeking even to know the future of another disciple, was stepping beyond his province, τί πρός σε; σὺ ἀκολούθει pot. Your business is to follow me, not to intermeddle with others. Cf. A Kempis’ description of the man who ‘neglects his duty, musing on all that other men are bound to do”. De Imit. Christi, ii. 3. Over-anxiety about any part of Christ’s Church is to forget that there is a chief Shepherd who arranges for all. This part of the conversation
might not have been recorded, but for a’
misunderstanding which arose out of it, —Ver. 23. ᾿Ἐξῆλθεν . . . πρός σε; “There went forth this saying among the brethren, that that disciple should not die”. John himself, however, has no such belief, because he remembers with exactness the hypothetical form of the Lord’s words, Ἐὰν αὐτὸν θέλω µένειν . . . Another instance of the precision with which John recalled some, at least, of the words of Jesus.
In ver. 24, the writer of the gospel is identified with the disciple whom Jesus