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Mat_8:26. Ἐπετίμησε ] increpuit, on account of the unseasonable fury of its waves. Similarly ðÌÈòÇø , Psa_106:9; Nah_1:4. Comp. Mat_17:18; Luk_4:39. This rebuking of the elements (at which Schleiermacher took special offence) is the lively plastic poetry, not of the author of the narrative, but of the mighty Ruler.
On τότε Bengel observes: “Animos discipulorum prius, deinde mare composuit.” Unquestionably more original than Mark and Luke; not a case of transforming into the miraculous (Holtzmann). The miraculous does not appear till after the disciples have been addressed.
γαλήνη μέγ .] Mat_8:24. σεισμὸς μέγ .
Here was a greater than Jonas, Mat_12:41.