applying to a physician, who administered an emetic. The parasite, describing the effect of the medicine, says that the doctor wondered where such a ness Aad place (éy@pynoe). For the rendering of the Rev., compare Aristophanes: mas obv ov yopel Tovpyov ; ** How is it that the work makes no progress ?” (“ Peace,” 472). Plutarch, éywper did Tis wodews 0 Aoyos, “the word (or report) spread (or advanced) through the city ” (‘‘ Ceesar,” 712).
38. Ye have seen. The best texts read jxovcare, ye heard. 39. Children (réxva). See on i. 12.
40. A man (avSpw7ov). Used only here by the Lord of Himself. To this corresponds His calling the Devil a man- slayer at ver. 44. Perhaps, too, as Westcott remarks, it may suggest the idea of the human sympathy which, as a man, He was entitled to claim from them.
This did not Abraham. In the oriental traditions Abraham is spoken of as ‘full of loving-kindness.”
41. Yedo. Or, are doing. Fornication (aopveias). From zrépvnms, to sell.
42. | proceeded forth—from God (é« tot Oeod €&7rJov). Rev., came forth. The phrase occurs only here and in xvi. 28. "Efe Seiv aro is found in xiii. 3; xvi. 30, and emphasizes the idea of separation; a going from God to whom He was to re- turn (and goeth unto God). ’EkeSeiv rapa (xvi. 27; xvil. 8), is going from beside, implying personal fellowship with God. "Efe Seiv éx, here, emphasizes the idea of essential community of being: “I came forth out of”
And am come (jjxw). As much as to say, and here [ am.
Of myself (am éuavrod). Of my own self-determination, independently, but my being is divinely derived. See on vii. ig