question is pertinent why the Revisers have retained see, and have not substituted behold, as in so many instances.
52. Now. Looking back to ver. 48. If we were too hasty then in saying that you have a demon, your words now fully justify us. They understood Him to be speaking of natural death.
Is dead (aréJave). Better, died: referring to the historical fact.
Taste of death. They change the form of Jesus’ statement. The Lord himself tasted of death. See Heb. ii. 9. The phrase taste of death does not occur in the Old Testament, but is com- mon in Rabbinic writings. “The angel of death,” say the Rabbis, “holdeth his sword in his hand at the bed’s head, having on the end thereof three drops of gall. The sick man, spying this deadly angel, openeth his mouth with fear; and then those drops fall in, of which one killeth him, the second maketh him pale, the third rotteth.”
53. Art thou (4 ov). Thou, emphatic, and the negative interrogative particle implying a negative answer, thou art not surely greater.
Which is dead (éo70s). The compound pronoun dots, which, is used explicatwely, according to a familiar New Testament usage, instead of the simple relative. The sense is, seeeng that he is dead. The compound relative properly indicates the class or kind to which an object belongs. Art thou greater than Abraham, who is himself one of the dead? So Col. iii. 5. ““Mortify covetousness, seeing it és (frig éotiv) idolatry.” See on Matt. xili. 52; xxi. 41; Mark xii. 18; Luke xii.1; Acts vii, 53; x. 41; 1 Pet. ii. 11.
55. Saying (Aoyov). Properly, word, as ver.51. So Rev.
56. Rejoiced (jya\Mudoaro). With exultant joy. See on tet et. i..6)