Mark 10 - In Depth Bible Commentaries

1606(...continued)Vulgate, a few of the Old Latin witnesses and the Syriac tradition, thereby combining thetwo other readings.These variant readings do not change the meaning of Mark, but simply provide asubject for the verb, making explicit what is already implicit in the text. France calls thereading “the God” a “scribal clarification.” (P. 387)1607In this theologically important, seminal text (Genesis 1:26-28), the distinctionbetween the sexes, and their being united together in a divinely blessed and fruitfulrelationship, is attributed to the divine will in creation--it is not something created by humanbeings, or an after-thought. The relationship between male and female is God-given, Godintended,from the very beginning of human existence. This passage reads as follows:1:26 ~Y" ÷h; tg:“d>bi •WDr>yIw> Wnte_Wmd>Ki WnmeÞl.c;B. ~d" ²a' hf,î[]n: ) ~yhiêl{a/ rm,aYOæw:`#rBi Wdúr>W h'vu_b.kiw>1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them,“Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill theearth, and bring it under control; and rule over the sea’s fish, and over the heavens’ birds, andover every living animal that creeps upon the earth.”891(continued...)