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Mat 17:17. Ἄπιστος, κ.τ.λ.,, faithless, etc.) By a severe rebuke the disciples are reckoned as a part of the multitude.-ἕως πότε, how long) After Jesus had received an accession of strength on the Mount, a more grievous instance of human unbelief and misery demanded and obtained His succour; cf. Exo 32:19.[791]-ἔσομαι, κ.τ.λ., shall I be, etc.) He was in haste to return to the Father; yet He knew that He could not effect His departure until He had conducted His disciples to a state of faith. Their slowness was painful to Him; see Joh 14:9; Joh 16:31.-μεθʼ ὑμῶν, with you) Jesus was not of this world.-ἀνέξομαι, shall I suffer) An instance of Metonymia Consequentis.[792] The life of Jesus was a continued act of toleration.
[791] The transfiguration may have probably been the most delightful, and the case of the lunatic the most painful, of the events which befell Jesus whilst sojourning on the earth.-V. g.
[792] See explanation of technical terms in Appendix.-(I. B.)
Here, the substitution of the consequent for the antecedent. Jesus puts His toleration of them (the consequent) instead of His sojourning with them (the antecedent of the former).-ED.