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Mat 16:9. Οὔπω, not yet) The fault of the slow learner is increased by his having heard long ago.-νοεῖτε-μνημονεύετε, understand, remember) The verb νοεώ expresses something more voluntary than συνίημι; see Mat 16:12; Mar 7:18; 2Ti 2:7. Sin affects also the mind and the memory. They ought to have understood, even if those two miracles had not been performed. We ought to remember even the circumstances of Divine works, and from former to hope for further help.[722]
[722] It is not such forgetfulness as they upbraided themselves with, Mat 16:7, but one altogether distinct, arising from unbelief accompanied with stupidity, that is here attributed to them as a fault.-V. g.