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Joh 6:15.[122] Ἁρπάζειν, to carry off) by force.-βασιλέα, a king) To make Him a king, was the prerogative of the Father, not of the people; nor was it as yet the tune. [And this very circumstance is perhaps the cause, that nowhere do we read that Jesus, whilst He teas sojourning on the earth, entered Bethlehem, the native town of David, even though that town was very close to Jerusalem.-Harm., p. 333.] Jesus, in order to avoid the people, already at that time often changed from place to place.-πάλιν, again) Comp. Joh 6:3, “Jesus went up into a mountain.”-αὐτὸς μόνος, Himself alone) having desired the disciples to cross over. Αὐτός is elegantly redundant, ΠΑΡΈΛΚΕΙ. Ch. Joh 12:24, Ὁ ΚΌΚΚΟς ΤΟῦ ΣΊΤΟΥ,-ΑὐΤῸς ΜΌΝΟς ΜΈΝΕΙ.
[122] ἔρχεσθαι, to come) The turning aside from a spiritual movement to temporal things is an easy transition.-V. g.