[273] See the excellent passage in Fritzsche, Comm. in Matth., p. 505. [↑]
[274] Mark’s inclination to exaggerate shows itself also in his concluding sentence, [v. 51], (comp. [vii. 37]): and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered; which will scarcely be understood to import, as Paulus supposes (2, s. 266), a disapproval of the excessive astonishment. [↑]
[275] Schneckenburger, über den Ursprung u. s. f., s. 68 f.; Weisse, die evang. Geschichte, 1, s. 521. [↑]
[276] Vid. Lücke and Tholuck. [↑]
[277] Homil. in Joann. 43. [↑]
[278] In De Wette’s objection, that the opinion of an exaggeration of the miracle in John, is discountenanced by the addition that they were immediately at the land (ex. Handb. 1, 3, s. 79), there appears to me only a misunderstanding; but his assertion that in John the manner in which Jesus goes over the sea is not represented as a miracle (s. 78), is to me thoroughly incomprehensible. [↑]
[279] Bretschneider, Probab., p. 81. [↑]
[280] See the passages in Wetstein, p. 417 f. [↑]