not aU that they say about Christ coming the second time iu glory.
26. — [Ought not!] This means, "was it Dot fitting, meet, and needful;" — "did it not behove," in order to the fulfilment of prophecies and types, that Christ should sufier? It is the same Greek word translated " behoved," at the 46th verse.
[Suffered,,, enter,., glory.] Here our Lord briefly states the whole truth concerning the expected Messiah. He was one who was to sufier first and afterwards to reign, — to be cut off first and afterwards have a kingdom, — to be led as a lamb to the slaughter first, and afterwards to divide the spoil as a conqueror.
27. — [Beginning at Moses ^ dc] Many a commentator has re- marked on this verse, that it would have been a blessing to the Church if it had possessed the exposition which our Lord here gave. For wise reasons it has been withheld from us. Several have attempted to supply conjectiu*ally the general substance of this exposition, and specially Gerhard, BuUinger, and Stella. But it is probable that we have, at best, very inadequate ideas of the fulness of our Lord's exposition. Judging from the use He made of Scripture during His ministry, He saw probably many "things concerning Himself" which modem commentators utterly fail to discover.
Alford I emarks, " Observe the testimony which this verse gives to the divine authority, and Christian interpretation of the Old Testament Scriptures. The denial of reference to Christ's death and glory in the Old Testament, is a denial of Christ's own teaching."
28. — [He made as though,,, gone further.] Many very improfitable remarks have been made on this expression. Some have gone so far as to assert that it justifies dissimulation and a certain degree of untruthfulness on some occasions. Such assertions are too monstrous and absuid to deserve serious refutation.
Alford remarks, " It is not implied that our Lord said anything to indicate that He would go further, but simply that He was passing on." He quotes also a passage from Jeremy Taylor's Sermon on Christian Simplicity, explanatory of this expression : — " Our blessed Saviour pretended that He would pass forth from Emmaus ; but if He intended not to do it, He did no injury to the two disciples, for whose good He intended to make this offer. Neither did He prevaricate the strictness of simplicity and sin- cerity, because they were persons with whom He had made no contracts, to whom He had passed no obligations. In the nature of the thing it is proper and natural by an offer to give an occa- sion to another to do good actions ; and in case it succeeds not then to do what was intended not And so the offer was con< ditionaL"