On Matt. xx. 23.  Is not Mine to give, save for whom it is prepared. I do not here render with the Arian gloss of A.V., infelicitously reproduced in the equally inexact translation of R.V.  The insertion of the words “it shall be given” and “it is” is apparently due to a pedantic prejudice against translating ἀλλά by “save” or “except,” a rendering which is supported in classical Greek by such a passage as Soph., O.T. 1331, and in Hellenistic Greek by Mark ix. 8.  The Vulgate has, quite correctly, “non est meum dare vobis, sed quibus paratum est a patre meo,” so far as the preservation of the Son as the giver is concerned.  A similar error is to be found in both the French and German (Luther’s) of Bagster’s polyglot edition.  Wiclif has correctly, “is not myn to geve to you but to whiche it is made redi of my fadir.”  So Tyndale, “is not myne to geve but to them for whom it is prepared of my father.”  The gloss begins with Cranmer (1539), “it shall chance unto them that it is prepared for,” and first appears in the Geneva of 1557 as the A.V. has perpetuated it.  The Rheims follows the vobis of the Vulgate, but is otherwise correct.  cf. note on Theodoret in this edition, p. 169.