Tuesday, November 26, 2019

All the City was gathered together (Notes)

Saint Mark - Chapter 1


He healed many... J-J Tissot
[32] Vespere autem facto cum occidisset sol, afferebant ad eum omnes male habentes, et daemonia habentes :
And when it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all that were ill and that were possessed with devils.

When the sun had set: Gr. ὅτε ἔδυ ὁ ἥλιος, i.e., when the sun was swallowed up and sunk in the sea. For δυόμαι means to be sunk, submerged, and is spoken of islands which are submerged and drowned by the sea. This is a form of speech adopted from the common people, who think that when the sun sets it is submerged in the ocean.

[33] et erat omnis civitas congregata ad januam.
And all the city was gathered together at the door.

And all the city (Capernaum, as appears from ver. 21) was gathered together at the door. Of the house of Peter and Andrew, where Jesus was being entertained, as is plain from ver. 29.








Capernaum
Capernaum means village of Nahum or consolation. It is frequently mentioned in the Gospels: Jesus, when rejected by the Nazarenes, made it His new abode (Matthew 4:13; Luke 4:31; John 2:12); He chose there his first disciples, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Matthew (Matthew 4:18, 21; 9:9; Mark 1:16); He cured there the centurion's servant, Peter's mother-in-law, a paralytic, a demoniac, the Hæmorrhoissa, etc.; it was there that He brought to life again the daughter of Jairus, and delivered many discourses, especially the one concerning the institution of the Eucharist (John 6). The inhabitants, however, at the instigation of the Pharisees, broke off with Him, and Jesus, on leaving their city, cursed it (Matthew 11:23). [Catholic Encyclopedia. 
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03309a.htm]





[34] Et curavit multos, qui vexabantur variis languoribus, et daemonia multa ejiciebat, et non sinebat ea loqui, quoniam sciebant eum.
And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases; and he cast out many devils, and he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him.

And He healed many, i.e., all who presented themselves, for they were many.

Suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew Him. Arab., because they knew that He Himself was He.

Totus tuus ego sum 
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam 




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