Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - Matthew 13:32 - 13:32
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat_13:32. Ὅ ] refers to κόκκος σινάπ ., and owes its gender to the fact of its being attracted by the neuter following; Winer, p. 156 [E. T. 217 ff.].
μικρότερον ] not instead of the superlative; see, however, on note Mat_11:11. But, inasmuch as this is a proverbial expression of a hyperbolical character, little need be made of the fact that seeds of a still more diminutive kind are to be met with; comp. Mat_17:20, and Lightfoot. “Satis est, in genere verum esse, quod dicit Dominus,” Erasmus.
τῶν λαχάνων ] than any other vegetable.
ὅταν δὲ αὐξ . κ . τ . λ .] but when it shall have grown, portrays the extraordinary result that follows the sowing of the tiny little seed. The astonishing nature of such a result is still more forcibly brought out in Luk_13:19 by means of δένδρον μέγα .
κατασκ .] dwell. The interpretation of the word as meaning to build nests (Erasmus) is not general enough; comp. note on Mat_8:20.