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Mat_10:26. Further encouragement by pointing to the providence of God.
στρουθία ] The diminutive is used advisedly. Comp. Psa_11:1; Psa_84:3; Aristot. H. An. v. 2, ix. 7. Two small sparrows for a single farthing. The latter was one-tenth of a drachma, and subsequently it was still less. It is also used by Rabbinical writers to denote the smallest possible price of anything; Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. p. 175, Lightfoot, Schoettgen.
καί ] is simply and, and placed first in the answer, which is, in fact, a continuation of the thought contained in the question. See Kühner, ad Xen. Mem. ii. 10. 2.
ἕν ] a single.
πεσεῖται ἐπὶ τ . γῆν ] not spoken of the bird that is caught in the snare or gin (Irenaeus, Chrysostom, Euth. Zigabenus), but of that which has dropped dead from the sky or the branches.
ἄνευ ] independently of, without the interference; the reading ἄνευ τῆς βουλῆς τοῦ πατρ . ὑμ . is an old and correct gloss. Comp. the classical expressions ἄνευ θεοῦ , ἄτερ θεῶν , and sine Diis, Isa_36:10.