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Mat_26:51. It is strange that the Synoptists have not mentioned the name of Peter here (Joh_18:10, where the name of the high priest’s servant is also given). It may be that, with a view to prevent the apostle from getting into trouble with the authorities, his name was suppressed from the very first, and that, accordingly, the incident came to be incorporated in the primitive gospel traditions without any names being mentioned, it having been reserved for John ultimately to supply this omission.
αὐτοῦ τὸ ὠτίον ] his ear (see on Mat_8:3). On ὠτίον , see Lobeck, ad Phryn. p. 211. He missed the head at which the stroke was aimed.