Mark 10:5

5. [2134][2135][2136][2137][2138] omit ἀποκριθείς. Cf. Mark 10:20; Mark 10:29; Mark 5:9; Mark 7:6; Mark 11:29; Mark 11:33; Mark 12:17.

[2134] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[2135] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[2136] Codex Ephraemi. 5th cent. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out, and the works of Ephraem the Syrian have been written over it; but a great deal of the original writing has been recovered; of Mark we have Mark 1:17 to Mark 6:31; Mark 8:5 to Mark 12:29; Mark 13:19 to Mark 16:20. In the National Library at Paris.

[2137] Codex Regius. 8th cent. An important witness. At Paris. Contains Mark 1:1 to Mark 10:15; Mark 10:30 to Mark 15:1; Mark 15:20 to Mark 16:20, but the shorter ending is inserted between Mark 16:8 and Mark 16:9, showing that the scribe preferred it to the longer one.

[2138] Codex Sangallensis. 9th or 10th cent. Contains the Gospels nearly complete, with an interlinear Latin translation. The text of Mark is specially good, agreeing often with CL. At St Gall.

5. εἶπεν αὐτοῖς. See crit. note.

Πρὸς τ. σκληροκαρδίαν ὑμῶν. First with emphasis; For your hardness of heart (R.V.), “with a view to it,” or “in reference to it.” See Gould on the importance of this concession, and Christ does not condemn Moses for having made it. To be σκληροκάρδιοι (Deuteronomy 10:16; Jeremiah 4:4; Ezekiel 3:7; Sir 16:10) and σκληροτράχηλοι (Exodus 33:3; Deuteronomy 9:6; Deuteronomy 9:13; Baruch ii. 30) had ever been a reproach against Israel (Acts 7:51). In Deuteronomy 10:16 and Jeremiah 4:4, Aq. has the more literal ἀκροβυστία καρδίας.

τὴν ἐντολὴν ταύτην. Not the command to divorce; there was no such command; but to effect divorce in a certain way.