Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...which Jesus conforms thereto. The phrase xpuccjxov 6r?/piZeiy corresponds in the LXX. to CIC (Jcr-21:10) or DD inJ (Ezek. 6: 2), dresser m face vers (Ostervald), to give one's view an invariable direction toward an end. The expression supposes a fear to be surmounted, an energy to be displayed. On the prepositional phrase to Jerusalem, comp. 9: 31 and Mark 10: 32: "And they were iu the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and as they followed they were afraid." To start for Jerusalem is to march to His death; Jesus knows it; the disciples have a presentiment of danger. This'conttrms our interpretation of dvaXtji-ii. Vers. 52-56. T/ie Jiefusal.--This tentative message of Jesus does not prove, us Meyer and Bleek think, that He had the intention of penetrating farther into Samaria, and of going directly to Jerusalem in that way. He desired to do a work in the north of that province, like that which had succeeded so admirably in the south (John 4). The sending of messengers was indispensable, on account of the numerous retinue which accompanied Him. The reading xuXiv (ver. 52), though less supported, appears to us preferable to the reading Kuftr/v, which is probably taken from ver. 50. In general, the Samaritans put no obstacle in the way of Jews travelling through their country. It was even by this route, according to Josephus, that the Galileans usually went to Jerusalem; but Samaritan toleration did not go so far as to offer hospitality. The aim of Jesus was to remove the wall which for long centuries had separated the two peoples. The Hebraism, ru npo6oj7tov nopevofxivov (ver. 53), COT C3D (Ex. 33:14; 2 Sam. 17:11), proves an Aramaic document. The conduct of James and John betrays a state of exaltation, which was perhaps...
