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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...B.) Beng. does not seem to me to speak of a different reading, but of the common interpretation, that there are here three classes of good hearers. He plainly understands there to be the one and the same good hearer, who bears fruit from the same seed in different degrees at different times. Hence Luke viii. 8 gives the one degree only, viz. the hundredfold, as the normal state of the believer's fruitfulness. However, in opposition to Beng., the transition from S; to S fciv, S it, neut. nominative, would not be unnatural (whether taken of one and the same good hearer, or of different classes of good hearers), as the individual becomes in a manner identified with the seed in process of time, just as the nutritive elements of the soil become identified with, and taken up into, the young germ: hence avaau;, he who is sown (applicable to the seed, but here also to the person), occurs in ver. 19, and otKhx, ver. 8, is nominative neuter, and plural, followed by o ftiv, o it. There is no notable variety of readings in the case.--Ed. 3 i.e. the h, which occurs three times in Mark iv. 8, is repeated as many times in ver. 20.--(I. B.) 4 When such a hearer turns the one and the same doctrine, on the opportunity of hearing it being given him even a hundred times, to his own profit and that of others.--V. g. 24. uapir, Kii/ alroT;, He set before them1) as food is set before a guest.8--h rip aypp, in the field) sc. that in which He Himself is: for it is said "In," not "into" His field. 25. Toi)c Afopuitous, the men) se. those whose business it was to watch the field. The Lord Himself does not sleep.--AiroO, His) it is not said their enemy.-- / awa, zizans9) This word does not occur in the Lxx. nor in the more ancient Greek writers; it is..."
