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Mat_16:22. Προσλαβόμ .] after he had taken Him to himself, comp. Mat_17:1, i.e. had taken Him aside to speak to Him privately. The very common interpretation: he took Him by the hand, imports what does not belong to the passage.
ἤρξατο ] for Jesus did not allow him to proceed further with his remonstrances, which had commenced with the words immediately following; see Mat_16:23.
ἵλεώς σοι ] sc. εἰη ὁ θεός , a wish that God might graciously avert what he had just stated, a rendering of the Hebrew çÈìÄéìÈä , 2Sa_20:20; 2Sa_23:17; 1Ch_11:19, LXX. 1Ma_2:21, and see Wetstein. Comp. our: God forbid!
ἔσται purely future; expressive of full confidence. Ὁ μὲν ἀπεκαλύφθη , ὁ Πέτρος ὀρθῶς ὡμολόγησεν · ὃ δὲ οὐκ ἀπεκαλύφθη , ὠσφάλη , Theophylact. Peter was startled; nothing, in fact, could have formed a more decided contrast to the Messianic conception on which his confession seemed to have been based, than the idea of a Messiah suffering and dying like a malefactor.