Luk 4:22. Ἐθαύμάζον) Θαυμάζω sometimes signifies, I praise, I express admiration in words.-τοῖς λόγοις, of the words) Luke wrote out, not an account of all the details, but a summary of the chief particulars.-τῆς χάριτος, of grace) The discourses of Christ have indeed a sweetness and a weighty impressiveness peculiar to them, and in respect to both of these qualities a certain kind of grace or becomingness, which is not to be found perceptible even in the apostles. For instance, it was not unbecoming in Paul to write in the way that he has written in 1Co 7:25, where see the notes; also in 2Co 12:13; Phm 1:9. Moreover Christ, as is natural to expert, speaks both more weightily and more sweetly.-καὶ ἔλεγον, and they were saying) Wondering admiration is good: but such an emotion, where it is not accompanied by firm faith, is readily succeeded by perversity, so that the mental gaze degenerates from being of a spiritual to a carnal character; and often one sentence or remark flowing from this state of mind may be deserving of great censure.