τὸ εὐ. τοῦτο, this gospel, the gospel of my death of love. ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ : after ὅπου ἐὰν might seem superfluous; not so, however: it serves to indicate the range of the “wheresoever”: wide as the world, universality predicted for Christianity, and also for the heroine of the anointing. Chrysostom, illustrating Christ's words, remarks: Even those dwelling in the British Isles (Βρεττανικὰς νήσους) speak of the deed done in a house in Judaea by a harlot (Hom. lxxx.: Chrys. identifies the anointing here with that in Luke 7).

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