CHAPTER X. _The Pharisees question our Lord concerning divorce_, 1-12. _Little children are brought to him_, 13-16. _The person who inquired how he might inherit eternal life_, 17-22. _How difficult it is for a rich man to be saved_, 23-27. _What they shall receive who have left all for Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:2. _IS IT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO PUT AWAY HIS WIFE?_] See this question about _divorce_ largely explained on Matthew 19:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:12. _AND IF A WOMAN SHALL PUT AWAY HER HUSBAND_] From this it appears that in some cases, the wife assumed the very _same_ _right_ of divorcing her husband that the husband had of divorcing his wife; and yet this is not recorded any where in the Jewish laws, as far as I can find, that... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:13. _AND THEY BROUGHT YOUNG CHILDREN_] See on Matthew 19:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:16. _AND HE TOOK THEM UP IN HIS ARMS_] One of the _Itala_ reads _in sinu suo _- "in his bosom." Jesus Christ _loves_ little children; and they are objects of his most _peculiar_ care. Who can account for their continual _preservation_ and _support_, while exposed to so many dangers, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 17. _THERE CAME ONE RUNNING_] See the case of this rich young man largely explained on Matthew 19:16, c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 21. _THEN JESUS, BEHOLDING HIM_] _Looking earnestly_, εμβλεψας, or _affectionately upon him, loved him_, because of his _youth_, his _earnestness_, and his _sincerity_. _ONE THING THOU LACKEST_] What was that? A heart disengaged from the world, and a complete renunciation of it and its concer... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 22. _AND HE WAS SAD AT THAT SAYING_] This young man had perhaps been a _saint_, and an eminent _apostle_, had he been _poor_! From this, and a multitude of other cases, we may learn that it is oftentimes a _misfortune_ to be _rich_: but who is aware of this?-and who believes it?... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 29. _AND THE GOSPEL'S_] Read, _for the sake of the Gospel_. I have with Griesbach adopted ενεκεν, _for the sake_, on the authority of BCDEGHKMS, V, sixty others, and almost all the versions.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 30. _IN THIS TIME_] Εν τῳ καιρῳ τουτῳ, _In this very time_. Though Jews and Gentiles have conspired together to destroy both me and you, my providence shall so work that nothing shall be lacking while any thing is necessary. _And fathers_. This is added by K, upwards of _sixty_ others, _AE... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 32. _AND HE TOOK AGAIN THE TWELVE_] Or thus: _For having_ _again taken the twelve_, c. I translate και _for_, which signification it often bears see Luke 1:22; John 12:35, and elsewhere. This gives the reason of the _wonder_ and _fear_ of the disciples, FOR _he began to tell them on the way, w... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 35. _AND JAMES AND JOHN - COME UNTO HIM_] The request here mentioned, Matthew says, Matthew 20:20, was made by _Salome_ their mother; the two places may be easily reconciled thus: - The mother _introduced_ them, and made the request as if _from herself_; Jesus knowing _whence_ it had come, imm... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 37. _IN THY GLORY._] _In the kingdom of thy glory_-three MSS. Which kingdom they expected to be established on _earth_. _AND BE BAPTIZED_] OR, _be baptized_. Instead of και _and_ η _or_, is the reading of BCDL, _five others_, _Coptic, Armenian_, later _Syriac_ in the margin, _Vulgate_, all th... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 40. _IS NOT MINE TO GIVE_] Matthew 20:23, Matthew 20:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 41. _WHEN THE TEN HEARD IT_] See Matthew 20:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 46. _BLIND BARTIMEUS_] בר _bar_ in Syriac signifies _son._ It appears that he was thus named because Timeus, _Talmeus_ or _Talmai_, was the name of his father, and thus the son would be called Bar-talmeus, or _Bartholomew_. Some suppose υιος Τιμαιου, _the son of Timeus_, to be an interpolation... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:50. _AND HE, CASTING AWAY HIS GARMENT_] He cast off his _outward_ covering, a _blanket_, or _loose piece of cloth_, the usual upper garment of an Asiatic mendicant, which kept him from the inclemency of the weather, that he might have nothing to hinder him from getting speedily to Chri... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:51. _LORD, THAT I MIGHT_, c.] The _Codex Bezae_, and some copies of the _Itala_, have, Κυριε ῥαββει, _O Lord, my teacher_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Mark 10:52. _FOLLOWED JESUS IN THE WAY._] Instead of τῳ Ιησου, _Jesus_, several eminent critics read αυτω, _him_. This is the reading of ABCDL, _fourteen_ others, _Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian_, later _Syriac_ in the margin, _two Persic, Vulgate_, all the _Itala_, and _Origen_ once. JESUS is t... [ Continue Reading ]