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Mat 16:22. Προσλαβόμενος, taking hold of) as if he had a right to do so. He acted with greater familiarity after his declaration of acknowledgment. Jesus however reduces him to his proper level; cf. Luk 9:28; Luk 9:48-49; Luk 9:54-55.-ὁ Πέτρος, Peter) The same mentioned in Mat 16:16.[759] Reason endures more easily the general proposition concerning the person of Christ, than the word of the Cross. Sudden changes occur in Peter, in Mat 16:16; Mat 16:22, and ch. Mat 17:4. Thence he bears witness from experience to the truth, that we are preserved by the power of God (1Pe 1:5), not our own.-ἬΡΞΑΤΟ, he began) He had received the other doctrines without making any objection.-ἵλεως Σοι, propitious unto Thee) sc. May God be. An abbreviated formulary. Thus in 1Ma 2:21, we meet with ἵλεως ἡμῖν καταλιπεῖν νόμον, God forbid that we should forsake the law. And thus the LXX. sometimes express the Hebrew חלילה.[760]
[759] There being thus afforded a remarkable specimen of how easy it is for one to stumble [to be offended with the humbling truths as to Christ] the more grievously [in proportion as one had the more boldly avowed the truth before].-V. g.
[760] As in 2Sa 20:20.-(I. B.)