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Mar_16:15. Continuation of the same act of speaking.
πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει ] to the whole creation, i.e. to all creatures, by which expression, however, in this place, as in Col_1:23, all men are designated, as those who are created κατʼ ἐξοχήν , as the Rabbinic äáøéåú is also used (see Lightfoot, p. 673, and Wetstein in loc) Not merely the Gentiles (who are called by the Rabbins contemptuously äáøéåú , see Lightfoot, l.c.) are meant, as Lightfoot, Hammond, Knatchbull, and others would have it. This would be in accordance neither with Mar_16:16 f., where the discourse is of all believers without distinction, nor with ἐκήρυξαν πανταχοῦ , Mar_16:20, wherein is included the entire missionary activity, not merely the preaching to the Gentiles. Comp. on πάντα τὰ ἔθνη Mat_28:19. Nor yet is there a pointing in τῇ κτίσει at the glorification of the whole of nature (Lange, comp. Bengel) by means of the gospel (comp. Romans 8), which is wholly foreign to the conception, as plainly appears from what follows ( ὁ … ὁ δέ ). As in Col. l.c., so here also the designation of the universal scope of the apostolic destination by πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει has in it something of solemnity.