Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
After this verse, the Codex Bezae and two ancient MSS. quoted by Wechel, have the following extraordinary addition:
\ri720 ͅ ͅ ̔ͅ ͅ ͅ, ͅ, , ; , .
\ri720 \cf1 On the same day, seeing one working on the Sabbath, he said unto him, Man, if indeed thou knowest what thou dost, blessed art thou; but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed, and art a transgressor of the law.
Whence this strange addition proceeded, it is hard to tell. The meaning seems to be this: If thou now workest on the Jewish Sabbath, from a conviction that that Sabbath is abolished, and a new one instituted in its place, then happy art thou, for thou hast got Divine instruction in the nature of the Messiah' s kingdom; but if thou doest this through a contempt for the law of God, then thou art accursed, forasmuch as thou art a transgressor of the law. The Itala version of the Codex Bezae, for , transgressor, has this semi-barbaric word, trabaricator .
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