16, 17. JESUS APPEARS TO THE ELEVEN IN GALILEE. Peculiar to St Matthew. 16. To opos. The mountain. Perhaps the highland behind Tell Hum or Capernaum (see map), the scene of their earliest intercourse with Christ, and the very spot where the New Law was first proclaimed. There the brethren, possibly five hundred in number [see vv. 9, 10 (8) (9)], besides the Eleven, awaited the coming of the Great Shepherd (v. 7). As the sacred form appeared on the familiar mountain side they threw themselves on the ground, doing homage to their Lord and God. But some doubted still. Then He drew more near and spake. And as the words sounded in their ears, we may believe they 'knew his voice' and dismissed their doubts. 17. πρоσεкúνηoav. See note, ch. xx. 20. It is characteristic of St Matthew's Gospel that this word, which indicates the homage and prostration before a king, should occur twelve times, whereas it is found twice only in each of the other Synoptics. oi Sé. Probably not some of the Apostles, but some of the five hundred who had not previously seen the Lord. For oi dè when oi μèv is omitted in the first clause see note, ch. xxvi. 67. Il. xΙ. 536, ἀφ ̓ ἱππείων ὁπλέων ῥαθάμιγγες ἔβαλλον, | αἱ δ ̓ ἀπ' Eπioσwτρwv (Winer, p. 131, and Riddell on Plato, Apol. Soc., p. 18, note 3, and Dig. 241). Sloraσav. The same word is used of St Peter's doubt, ch. xiv. 31, and in these passages only in N.T.; there too the doubt is followed by adoration, v. 33. 18-20. THE LAST CHARGE TO THE APOSTLES. 18. πpoσel0wv éládŋoev. Came up to them, near to them, and spake. 'ES60n, 'was given," the aorist of an eternal fact, so undefined and independent of time-notion, cp. ch. iii. 17 and xi. 27, and Phil. ii. 8-10. These words, in which the infallible King Himself announces His eternal possession of the Kingdom, St Matthew, who is essentially the historian of the Kingdom, alone records. 19. μαθητεύσατε. Make disciples of. Cp. Acts xiv. 21, μαθητεύσαντες ikavoús, and see ch. xiii. 52, xxvii. 57, where the same word is used. didáσkovtes, v. 20,='instructing.' 'Make disciples of all the Gentiles Táνта тà ë0vη) by baptism and by instruction in all my commands to you” (πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην). eis Tò ovoμa. "Into the name." Jewish proselytes were baptized into the name of the Father; Jesus adds the name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. In the instances of baptism recorded in the Acts, ii. 38, viii. 16, x. 48, xix. 5, the name of Jesus Christ (or the Lord Jesus) alone occurs in the baptismal formula, but the promise of the Holy Ghost is given (ii. 38), or the gift of the Holy Ghost follows the rite (viii. 17, xix. 6), or precedes it (x. 44, 47). 20. μel' vμŵv eiuí. The Lord Jesus had already taught His disciples during the forty days how He could be present with them and yet be unseen by them. They could then the more easily believe this promise. πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας. All the days, not at intervals during the days (δι' ἡμερῶν τεσσεράκοντα ὀπτανόμενος, Acts i. 3), but continuously on each and all the days between now and the completion of the Eon. EWS TηS K.T.λ. See note ch. xiii. 39. The last words of St Matthew's Gospel fall solemnly on the ear, the sense of the continual presence of Christ is not broken even by an account of the Ascension. No true subject can doubt that the King is enthroned in Heaven. INDEX TO NOTES. I. ENGLISH. Bar, meaning of, 210 Bartholomew, meaning of name, Baskets, different words for, 200, Beelzebub, meaning of, 166 Bethsaida, 173; question of two Betrayal of Jesus, 287. See Arrest Binding and loosing, meaning of, Birds, 134, 135, 164, 167 Blindness, cause of prevalence in Fig-tree, cursing of, 244; early kind Four thousand fed, 207 Fragments, proper meaning of, 200 Future tense, 126, 224 Gadara, 150 Galilæans, dialect of, 298 Galilee, ministry in, 107; meaning Garment, hem or fringe of the, 202, 258 Gehenna, 120, 211, 260 Genitive case, 120, 177 of infinitive, 91 Gennesaret, Lake of, 108, 185; land Gesture and looks of Jesus, 231, Gospel, meaning of word, 80 Guards at the Cross, 312; at the Habba as a Messianic title, 83, 242 Hebrew original of St Matthew's Hell, two Greek words for, 211, and Herod the Great, 86, 239; Antipas, Herodian family, xxxii. Herodians, 252 Herodias, 196, 226 High-priesthood, no longer heredi- Hinnom, valley of, 120 Immortality, proof of, 254 Imperfect tense, 102, 143, 145, 156, Infinitive, final, 104, 118 Irenæus' testimony concerning St Isaiah quoted, 84, 85, 95, 108, 179, Ish, 299 Itacism, 151 Jairus, daughter of, 156 James, different persons called, 161 Jerusalem, fall of as a type of the end of the world, 215, 265; John the Baptist, preaching, 95; Jordan, fords of the, 102 Judas Iscariot, probably a non- Judas or Jude, three persons named, Jude the apostle, also called Leb- Kedron, valley of, pinnacle over- Keys, significance of, 212, 259 Lamp, 118 Last Supper, 288 Leper and leprosy, 145, 163 Life, different senses of word, 168, Little ones, meaning of, 169, 221 Lord's prayer, 128-132 Lunatic, 111; cure of, 218 Machærus, scene of John the Bap- Magdala, or Mejdel, 207 |