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Mat_19:26. Ἐμβλέψας ] This circumstance is also noticed by Mark. The look which, during a momentary pause, preceded the following utterance was doubtless one of a telling and significant character, and calculated to impress the startled disciples (Chrysostom, Euthymius Zigabenus: ἡμέρῳ βλέμματι ). Comp. Luk_20:17; Joh_1:43.
παρὰ ἀνθρώποις ] so far as men are concerned, i.e. not hominum judicio (Fritzsche, Ewald), but serving to indicate that the impossibility is on the part of man, is owing to human inability, Luk_1:37.
τοῦτο ] namely, the σωθῆναι , not: that the rich should be saved. See Mat_19:25 (in answer to Fritzsche, de Wette). Jesus invites the disciples to turn from the thought of man’s own inability to obtain salvation, to the omnipotence of God’s converting and saving grace.