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These little ones (tōn mikrōn toutōn). In the same sense as “one such little one” above. The child is the type of believers.
A great millstone (mulos onikos), literally, “a millstone turned by an ass.” The upper millstone was turned by an ass (onos). There were no examples of the adjective onikos (turned by an ass) outside the N.T. until the papyri revealed several for loads requiring an ass to carry them, stones requiring an ass to move them, etc. Deissmann (Light from the Ancient East, p. 81) notes it also in papyri examples about the sale of an ass and tax for an ass’s burden of goods.
The depth of the sea (tōi pelagei tēs thalassēs). “The sea of the sea.” Pelagos probably from plēsso, to beat, and so the beating, splashing waves of the sea. “Far out into the open sea, a vivid substitute for eis tēn thalassan” (McNeile).