realized, he 11nd they evidently give up all for lost. The great Healer might havo restored her to health, however ill, or however far gone she might havo been • but how can he restore hor to life now that she is dead? 4. Jesus' power over death: He had heard, or, ifwe read a compound of the same word, though slightly supported (rap1&1to6<Tas) he had overheard the conversation between the messeng,irs and Jairus • he had heard them dissuade the ruler from fatiguing with the length of the journey, ~r in any other way worrying the Physician (<T1<6ME<s, root <T1<vA.ov, spoils, means" to spoil, despoil, flay, trouble, harass, or worry"), as it was only bootless la.hour-quite useless work-for tho child was dead. Our Lord tried to revive the father's hopes, encourage his fainting heart, and strengthen his weak faith, saying, " Do not be afraid, only believe." The mourners, especially the hired mourners, who were making so much ad'.), and beatin" themselves (l1<moJ1To), in grief more seeming than sincere, began to deride our Lord~ or laugh him down (,ca-rrylA~v). In fact, they did not wish her restored, lest perhaps their occupation would be gone. Taking the maiden by the hand, he addressed her, in the vernacular Aramaic of the district, saying, " Talitha cumi, Ma.id, arise." Straightway she arose and walked ; her motion proved strength, and strength and motion belong to life; and so death, after all, is a sleep, from which the Saviour brings awakening. His power over every stage of death appears by the restoration of one just departed as this maiden; of one being carried out to burial, as the son of the widow of Nain; of one already in the grave four days, as Lazarus. 6. Practical, character of our Lord. When Simon's mother-in-law was cured, she turned to her domestic duties ; when this young girl of twelve years of age was restored, she walked about (1rep,e...d-ru)-how natural! When others wondered, Jesus thought of the keen appetite of the young girl, and ordered her /ood.-J. J. G.
EXPOSITION.
OHAPTER VI. clause, Whe.t is the wisdom that is given (not "unto him," but) unto this man l Ver. 1.-0ur Lord now left the neigh• There is e. contemptuous tone about the bourhood of Capernaum, and came into his expression. own country, the district of Nazareth, where Ver. 3.-Is not this the carpenter l St. he had been, not born indeed, but b!'ought Matthew (xiii. 55) says, "the carpenter's np, nnd where his kinsfolk after the flesh son." We infer from this that onr Lord still lived. Nazareth would be a.bout a day's actually worked e.t the trade of a carpenter, journey from Caper.mum. This was not the and probably continued to do so until he first publio exercise of his ministry e.t Naza- entered upon his publio ministry. We may reth. Of that e.nd its results St. Luke gives also infer that Joseph wns now no longer us the account (iv. I 6). It would seem rea- living, otherwise it would he.ve been natural sonable to suppose the.t, after the fame which for his name to have been mentioned here. he had now acquired, he should a.gain visi, l Acoording to St. Chrysoatom, our Lord ma.de the place where he had been brought up. ploughs and yokes for oxen. Certainly, he His sisters were still living there. St. often drew his similitudes from tl.:ese things. Murk here again uses the historical present "No man putting his he.nd to the plough, (px•-ra,, "he cometh," for whioh there is and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of better authority the.n for ~A.e•v. His dis- God" (Luke ix. 62). '' Ta.ke my yoke upon ciples follow him. Onl,Y the chosen three you, and learn of me" (Matt. xi. 29). Christ had been with him in the house of Je.irus. we.s the son of e. carpenter. Yea : but he The presence of the whole body of the dis- was also the Son of him who made the ciples would be valuable e.t Nazareth. world at his will. Yee., he himself made Ver. 2.-As usual, he made the se.bbath the world. "All things were made by him," the speoial time for his teaching. And many the Eternal Word. And he made them for us, hearing him were astonished. They were the.t we might judge of the Malter by the astonished e.t the ability, the sublimity, the grea.tness of his work. He chose to be the holiness of his teaching, e.e well as at the son of a carpenter. IC he had chosen to be signs and wonders by which he confirmed the son of an emperor, then men might he.ve it. "Many" hearing him; not e.11. Some asoribed his influence to the circumstances listened with faith; but "the many" (there of his birth. But he chose e. bumble and is some authority for al 1r0Mol) were envious obscure condiUon, for this, e.mong other rea- or him. Whence bath this me.n these things1 10ns, that it might be e.oknowledged the.t it The expression, "this man," is repeated, we.a his divinity th11t transformecl the world. accordin.; to the best authorities, in the next Is not this tl:e carpenter, the son ot Mary, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MAUK, [orr. VI, 1-56,