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18. Οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς. As before (Mar 4:13), He expresses surprise at their want of discernment. The position of οὕτως is against its being taken with ἀσύνετοι, “so wanting in discernment,” tam insipientes. Better, “Is it so,” siccine? Vulg. has Sic et vos imprudentes estis? Either “Even you” (Mar 1:27; Mat 5:46) or “you also” (Mat 20:4; Mat 20:7; Joh 6:68, where the context is decisive) may be right; see on Mar 2:28. “Even you, whom I have instructed,” or “you also, as well as the multitude.” We have similar surprise again in Mar 8:17, οὔπω νοεῖτε οὐδὲ συνίετε; Syr-Sin. has “Are ye yet so stubborn? Do ye not yet understand anything? that not everything which entereth into a man defileth him?”
οὐ δύναται κοινῶσαι. Cannot pollute him in any religious sense; he is not morally the worse. The Scribes taught otherwise. This repetition from Mar 7:15 is omitted in Mt.