The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim

Author:Alfred Edersheim
Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

5. See ch. 29.

6. Literally, 'upon the earth.'

7. The word means a specially lonely place.

8. Of Bleek.

9. By Dean Plumptre, ad loc.

But more than this requires to be said. First, we must here once more remind ourselves, that the former provision was for Jews, and the disciples might, from their standpoint, well doubt, or at least not assume, that the same miracle would supply the need of the Gentiles, and the same board be surrounded by Jew and Gentile. But, further, the repetition of the same question by the disciples really indicated only a sense of their own inability, and not a doubt of the Saviour's power of supply, since on this occasion it was not, as on the former, accompanied by a request on their part, to send the multitude away. Thus the very repetition of the question might be a humble reference to the past, of which they dared not, in the circumstances, ask the repetition.

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