Mat 9:16. Οὐδεὶς, no one) Our Lord chose, as His disciples, men who were unlearned, fresh and simple, and imbued with no peculiar discipline.-See ch. Mat 15:2; cf. Gnomon on Luk 7:20. The old raiment was the doctrine of the Pharisees; the new, that of Christ.-αἴρει, taketh away) both itself and more.-αὐτοῦ, his) The word is here in the masculine gender.[419]-χεῖρον σχίσμα γίνεται, the rent becomes worse) Therefore, there was before some rent. A ragged garment, altogether ragged, is intended.
[419] Rosenmüller more naturally refers αὐτοῦ to ῥάκους, “pannus impexus a vestimento vetustate contrito aliquid aufert” Beng. seems to take αὐτοῦ with πλήρωμα, as “the portion put in by him to fill up the rent.”-ED.