_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 16:1. HAD BOUGHT SWEET SPICES.—Simply, _bought spices_. No time specified, merely the fact stated. From Luke 23:56 we gather (unless, indeed, there were two companies of women) that the purchase was made before the Sabbath began. St. Mark’s point is, that the wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 16:9. See Appendix, p. 641. Mark 16:15. GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD.—That is to say, “Go wherever ye will, wherever ye can, that the gospel may be diffused: no limits of place are henceforth prescribed to you.” EVERY CREATURE.—Every human creature. Cp. “all nation... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 16:19. Mark the antithesis. The Lord, for His part, was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God—the seat of power; and they, for their part, went forth into the world to do as He had bidden them, and, doing it, they were sustained and reinforce... [ Continue Reading ]