marking the transition from one thing to another, and serving to connect the several parts of the narrative. See ver. 2oie. i. 18; iii. 25; iv. 28, 30, ete. Much more frequently thus than in the discourses, where it would be used to mark a sequence of thought. Still such instances occur, as vv. 91, 25; iii. 29; viii. Sewvenwl
He dwelt (weve). The present tense. Lit., they saw where he dwelleth. For a similar construction see ii. 9 ; iv. 1; Acts x. 18, ete:
Tenth hour. The question is whether this is to be reck- oned according to the Jewish or the Roman method of com- putation. The J ewish method, employed by the other Evan- gelists, begins the day at sunrise; so that, according to this, the tenth hour would be four o’clock in the afternoon. The Roman method, like our own, reckons from midnight ; accord- ing to which the tenth hour would be ten o’clock in the morn- ing. The weight of the argument seems, on the whole, to be in favor of the Jewish method, which is undoubtedly assumed by John in xi. 9. The Greeks of Asia Minor, for whom John wrote, had the Jewish method, received from the Babylonians. Godet cites an incident from the ‘‘ Sacred Discourses ” of Aelius Aristides, a Greek sophist of the second century, and a con- temporary of Polycarp. God having commanded him to take a bath, he chose the si#th hour as the most favorable to health. It being winter, and the bath a cold one, the hour was méd- day; for he said to his friend who kept him waiting, “Seest thou the shadow is already turning?” Even Canon West- cott, who advocates the Roman method, admits that “ this mode of reckoning was unusual in ancient times,” and that “ the Romans and Greeks, no less than the Jews, reckoned their hours from sunrise,” though the Romans reckoned their czval days from midnight, and the tenth hour is named as a late hour, when soldiers took their repast or were allowed to rest. Thus Livy, in his account of the Roman attack on Sutrium says, “ About the tenth hour the consul ordered his men a re- past, and gave directions that they should be ready in arms at