[32] Comp. [v. 44] with [vii. 17]; [v. 46] with [viii. 12]; [v. 47] with [iii. 17]; [v. 48] with [iii. 18], [v. 45]; [v. 49] with [viii. 28]; [v. 50] with [vi. 40], [vii. 17], [viii. 28]. [↑]
[34] Lücke, Tholuck, Paulus, in loc. [↑]
[35] Cyril, Erasmus. Tholuck’s expedient, which Olshausen approves, is to give ἐμαρτύρησεν the signification of the pluperfect, and to understand γὰρ as an explicative. But I do not see how this can be of any avail, for γὰρ and οὖν ([v. 45]) would still form a relation of agreement between two propositions, which one would have expected to be opposed to each other by μὲν and δὲ. [↑]
[36] Paulus, Comm. 4, s. 251, 56. [↑]
[37] This idea is so entirely in the spirit of the ancient harmonists, that I can scarcely believe Lücke to be the first to whom it had occurred (Comm. 1, s. 545 f.). [↑]