The Pulpit Commentary — Matthew — Volume 1 — Section 369

and also ruins those who so accept it Pnrallel pass11gce: 11'1:ark v. 21-13; Luka {ver. 17). The verses thus (I) answer viii. 40-56. Matthew's account is much I.he disciples of J oho tile Ilaptist, that the shortest.. fasting must not be made compulsory for Christ's disciples; and (2) warn them Ver. 18.-While he epake these things solemnly tllat they themselves must become unto them. l\latthew only. All the accounts morally fitted to rcoei'l'e Christ"s teaching. represent our Lord as teaching when Jairus No man; empllatic. Christ wanb1 to show came to him ; but in the parallel passages them the irrationality of what they want he was on the seashore (cquivalont to our him to do-enjoin fa,ting on his disciples. ell. viii. 31; ix. I). Mattllew alone places Putteth a pieoe-patcheth a patch (lr,/3cL>.>.. .. his coming just after the question of tile ,1rl/3>..11,u.a.)-ot new (undreiised, Revised Baptist's disciples. Probably the words, Version) cloth unto (upon, Revised Version) "while he spako these tllings unto them," an old garment, for that whioh is put in nre not in tlleir original connexion. Behold, to fill it up (that v,hich ~hould fill it up, there came a certain; a (Revised Version); Revised Version; T~ 1r>..-f,pwµa. a.,hoii) taketh lfpX"'" [,Ts] 1rpo,,.,l\Br1,., (for ,Ts, cf. eh. viii. from the garment, and the rent ill made 19, note). Ruler (lfpx.,,). From this ex- worse (and a v,orse rent is made, Revised pression alone we should understand Jairus Version). My teaclling is intended to be to have been head of the board of elders more tllan a patch (however good a patch) for tile general affairs of the congregation ; sewn on to the religion of the day. but Mark's expression, ,Ts Tow cipx,,,.vv11- Ver. 17.-Neither do men put new wine -y,J,-y,,,., ( cf. Luke,lfpx"'" ·dis 1Tuva.-yw-y;)s), corn. into old bottles ; trine-,kins (Revised Ver- pels us to regard him as tllat elder who was sion); cf. Job xx.xii. 19. (For rabbinic appointed to care specially for the publio comparisons of the Law to wine, of. Dr. worship, Mark's language probably mean- Taylor, 'Aboth,' iv. 29.) Else (eh. vi. I, ing that he was one of the class of those note) the bottles ( skins, Revised Version) who held this appointment. Sometimes the burst. The stress ill on "burst; " the offices of l1px01v and l,.px11Tuvd-ywyas were thought is therefo?e not yet of the bottles, held by the same person, and this may, per- but of the fa.te of the wine. And the wine haps, have been the case with Jairus (cf. runneth out (is spilled, Revised Version ; Sclliirer, II. ii. p. 64). And worshipped him •Kx<iT<u), an~ the bott~es (skin,, Revis~ (eh. viii. 2, note). Baying, My daughter is Version) perish. It rums the vessels in even now dead, Matthew, by compression, which it is placed (ver. 16, note). But they indicates what had happened before the pnt new wine into new ; fruh (Revised Ver• interview was over. But come and lay thy_ sioo); Ka.lvo.ls. The change from v,os of the hand upon her; in sign of personal relation wine to Ka.ll'OS of the ski11S is maintained in aud life-communication. Kiibel (in loo.) has all three accounts, v,os suggesting the latest an interesting note on tile laying-on of hands vintage, ,ra.wos that the skins are absolutely in the New Testament (cf. also Bishop unimpaired (cf. Trench, • Syn.,' § Ix.). W eetcott, on Heh. vi. 2). And she shall Bottles (u,ine-,kins, Revised Version), and live. both are pre■erved. Ver. 19.-AndJ'esua arose. Matthew only. From the table, if Mntthow's connexion is Vera. 18-31.-4. THE CollPLETENESS 011' to be followed ; from his seat by the sea- ms Hlil.ING PoWEB. (CC. eh. viii I, note.) shore, if Mark's. And followed him. As (I) All regards restore.tion to life ancl life• he led the way to hie house. The tense (l)KoAoo9«) shows thatonr Lord had already 11trength generally (vers. 18-26). (2) As started wllen the next incident took place. regards the restoration of separate bodily And so did his disoiples. Mark substitutes powers (vers. 27-3i): (a) sight (vers. 27- "a great multitude," and adds that •• they 31); (b) speech, though, in this CBSe, the thronged him" (of. also Luke). dumbness was the work of an evil spirit Ver. 20.-(And, behold, , . , that hour), The Revised Version and the ordinary (vers. 32- 34). editions of the Authorized Version omit the Observe also iL this section the reference brackets, BB unnecessary. And, behold, a to the effect of hill work upon outsiders. (I) woman whioh was diseased with (u,ho had, The spread of the fame of his work and Revised Vmion) an issue of blood ( ,Jµa#o• himself (vers. 26, 31). (2) The wonder of oiilTa). Physically and (Lev. xv. 25) cere• the multitudes (ver. 33) [and the accnsation monially unclean. Twelve years. The age of Jairue' daughter es recorded in the parallel of the Pharisees (ver. 34)]. pnseagee. 'fhe coincidence led to its being Vera. 18-26.-TMrai,ingo/ the daught.er remembered, ancl the number itself was the of a ruler (Jairw, in the parallel pa11Bage1), more noticeable as it seems to.have symbo- and tJie healing of the woman with an im111. lized tile presence of God in nature (S x 4). err. rx. 1-38.) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. 365