coDcerDing our Lord's risen body* show plainly that it was a body in some wonderful way different from the common body of roan. It was a real material body, and true flesh and blood. But it was a body capable of moving, appearing, and disappear- ing after a manner that we cannot explain. We may fairly suppose that it was a pattern of what our own bodies will be after they are raised again. They will be true bodies, material and real, but bodies endued with capacities of which now we know nothing.
32. — [Did not our heart burn.] These words would be more literally rendered, " was not our heart burning within us." It is a strong expression to indicate the warmth and delight of their feelings while they listened to our Lord's exposition of Scripture. See Psalm xxxix. 4 ; Jerem. xx. 9.
33. — [Found the eleven gathered together.] This expression deserves notice. Was Thomas with them or not? If he was, he must have gone out immediately after the two disciples came in. Otherwise it would be difficult to reconcile the verses which immediately follow, describing our Lord's appearing, with the account given in St. John, of Christ's appearing when Thomas was not present. — If Thomas was not present on this occasion, how can we explain St. Luke, speaking of "the eleven?" Doddridge must supply the answer ; — "As Paul calls the company of apostles the twelve, (I Cor. xv. 5.) though Judas the twelfth person was dead ; so liuke here calls them the eleven, though Thomas the eleventh person was absent, as appears from John XX. 24."
Let us add to this, that St. Mark distinctly tells us, also, that the Lord " appeared to the eleven, as they sat at meat." (Mark xvi. 14.)
34. — [Saying, the Lord is risen indeed.] Major remarks here, " These words which Luke attribute to the eleven apostles are not altogether consistent with what we read in Mark, (Mark xvi. 12.) that when the two disciples returning acquainted the rest, "they did not believe them." — Campbell thus solves the dif- ficulty : * This does not imply that none of them believed, but that several, perhaps the greater part, did not believe. W^hen Luke tells us that they said * the Lord is risen indeed,' we are not to conclude that every one said this, or even believed it, but only that some believed, and that one of them expressly affirmed it. Such latitude in using pronouns is common in every lan- guage. So, according to Matthew and Mark, both malefactors reproached Jesus on the cross. But from Luke we learn that it was only one of them who acted thus."
[Appeared to Simon.] This appearance to Simon Peter alone is only mentioned in this place, and in the Epistle to the Corin- thians. (1 Cor. XV. 2.) The circumstances of the appearance we do not know.