ἀνάπεσε. אABE, &c. Other MSS. have ἀνάπεσαι, which Meyer prefers as the less familiar form. The ἀνάπεσον of the Rec[283] is ill-supported.

[283] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

10. ἀνάπεσε. Some MSS. read ἀνάπεσαι, but only the 2nd aor. of this verb is found.

δόξα. ‘Glory.’ It need, however, hardly be said that nothing is farther from our Lord’s intentions than to teach mere calculating worldly politeness. From the simple facts of life that an intrusive person renders himself liable to just rebuffs, he draws the great spiritual lesson so much needed by the haughty religious professors by whom He was surrounded, that

“Humble we must be if to heaven we go;
High is the roof there, but the door is low.”

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