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2042 manuscripts containing Matthew
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John Gill's Exposition3 paragraphs
Howbeit, this kind goeth not out,.... The Vulgate Latin renders it, "is not cast out"; and so do the Arabic version, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel; and which confirm the more commonly received sense of these words, that they are to be understood of that kind of devils, one of which was cast out of the lunatic, and was of the worst sort, of a fierce and obstinate kind; and having had long possession, was not easily ejected: and that there is a difference in devils, some are worse and more wicked than others, is clear from Mat 12:45 and not of that kind of miracles, or kind of faith to the working of such miracles. Moreover, the above versions, as they fitly express the word here used; see Mar 9:17 compared with Mat 15:17. So they pertinently set forth the dispossession of devils, who do not go out voluntarily, but by force; and this sort could not be ejected,
but by fasting and prayer: that is, in the exercise of a miraculous faith, expressed in solemn prayer to God, joined with fasting. It seems that Christ not only suggests, that faith was greatly wanting in his disciples; for which reason they could not cast out the devil, and heal the lunatic; but they had been wanting in prayer to God, to assist them in the exercise of their miraculous gifts; and that whilst Christ, and the other three disciples were on the mount, they had been feasting and indulging themselves with the people, and so were in a very undue disposition of mind, for such extraordinary service, for which our Lord tacitly rebukes them. This agrees with the notions of the Jews, who think that, by fasting, a divine soul (f) , "may obtain that which is sought for"; and that among other things, for which a private person may afflict himself with fasting, this is one, , "because of an evil spirit" (g); which they think may be got rid of this way.
(f) Jacchiades in Dan. x. 3. (g) T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 22. 2. Maimon. Hilch. Taaniot, c. 1. sect. 6.
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Apparatus conventions and abbreviations
The raw data follows the ECM/NT Greek tradition: each row pairs a reading siglum (how the editors label that option) with the manuscripts that support it—not every abbreviation is unpacked in the scholarly print volume, but these recur in this viewer.
om.— omitted: witnesses on this row do not include the Greek word(s) printed for other readings at this place—an omission relative to manuscripts that attest the fuller text elsewhere in the apparatus.- a, b, c… — reading labels at this variation unit (first, second, third option). These are editorial sigla for Greek forms, not Gregory–Aland (GA) manuscript numbers.
- GA numbers (01, P46, 2681…) — manuscripts cited by Gregory–Aland identifiers.
zz— lacuna at this spot: counted for the verse but with no substantive text readable here when other witnesses have wording.- Word position — which Greek word/token in this verse each block refers to, numbered in the ECM segmentation used by the source data.
ManuscriptsGregory–Aland (GA) numbers identify Greek NT manuscripts (01 = Sinaiticus, P46, 2427, etc.). Search any GA to open its catalog entry from the ~5,795-manuscript Kurzgefaßte Liste index.2042
2042 manuscripts containing Matthew