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Mat 7:29. Ὡς ἑξουσίαν ἔχων, as one having authority) They could not withdraw themselves away.[353] It is the mark of truth to constrain minds, and that of their own free will. See examples of our Lord’s authority (ἐξουσία) in the Gnomon on ch. Mat 5:3; Mat 5:18-20, Mat 7:22-23, and also Mat 8:19, and Joh 7:19.-γραμματεῖς,[354] scribes) to whom the people were accustomed, and who had no authority,
[353] They felt the majesty of the Teacher, and the power of His word.-V. g.
[354] The argin of Edit. A.D. 1753 regards the fuller reading,οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι, as almost equal in probability to this shorter one.-E. B.
Lachm. adds the words with C corrected by the first and second later hand, ac Vulg. Hil. 640, Euseb. ἀποδ. 27b:b also, adding αὐτῶν. However the weighty authority of B is against the additional words.-ED.