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Mat 14:13. Ἀκούσς, having heard) sc. those things which are mentioned in Mat 14:1-12.[668]-ἀνεχώρησεν, departed) The murderer of the Baptist was unworthy to hear or see the Lord: see ch. Mat 21:23-27. Afterwards, indeed, he did see Him; Luk 23:8; not, however, coming of His own accord, but forced by the violence of His enemies; and therefore Herod’s seeing Him, on that occasion, was not a sign of favour. Cf. the case of Samuel and Saul, 1Sa 15:35; 1Sa 19:24.-κατʼ ἰδίαν, apart) no one being taken with Him, except His disciples.-πεξῇ, on foot) See Eustathius.[669]
[668] Namely, that the fame of Himself had reached Herod. Comp. Joh 4:13.-Harm., p. 331.
[669] EUSTATHIUS, the grammarian, who flourished in the twelfth century, was Bishop of Thessalonica. He wrote commentaries on Homer, and on Dionysius the geographer. He must not be confounded with the amatory writer, Eumathius the Macrembolite, who wrote under this name in the fifteenth century, and was an obscure grammarian.-(I. B.)