[6272] Josh. xv.
[6273] Even to this day seems a favourite resort of the inhabitants of Jerusalem for an afternoon (comp. Conder's Tent-Work in Palestine, i. pp. 25-27).
[6274] 60 furlongs about = "7" ½ miles.
[6275] I cannot persuade myself that the right reading of the close of ver. 17 (St. Luke xxiv.) can be And they stood still, looking sad.' Every reader will mark this as an incongruous, jejune break-up in the vivid narrative, quite unlike the rest. We can understand the question as in our A.V., but scarcely the standing-still and looking sad on the question as in the R. V.
[6276] Without this last clause we could hardly understand how a stranger would accost them, ask the subject of their conversation.
[6277] Meyer's rendering of s gneto in ver. 19 as implying: se præstitit, se præbuit, is more correct than the which was' of both the A.V. and R.V.
[6278] 1 Cor. xv. 5.
[6279] St. Luke xxiv. 33.
[6280] St. Mark xvi. 14.
[6281] I cannot understand why Canon Cook (Speaker's Commentary' ad loc.) regards St. Luke xxiv. 39 as belonging to the appearance on the octave of the Resurrection.' It appears to me, on the contrary, to be strictly parallel to St. John xx. 20.
[6282] The words and honeycomb' seem spurious.
[6283] Such seems to me the meaning of His eating; any attempt at explaining, we willingly forego in our ignorance of the conditions of a glorified body, just as we refuse to discuss the manner in which He suddenly appeared in the room while the doors were shut. But I at least cannot believe, that His body was then in a transition state,' not perfected not quite glorified till His Ascension.
[6284] Wescott.
[6285] The words in the two clauses are different in regard to the sending of Christ (pstalkn me) and in regard to the Church (pmpo ms). No doubt, there must be deeper meaning in this distinction, yet both are used alike of Christ and of the disciples. It may be as Cremer seems to hint (Bibl. Theol. Lex. of the N.T. p. 529) that postllo, from which apostle' and apostolate' are derived, refers to a mission with a definite commission, or rather for a definite purpose, while pmpo is sending in a general sense. See the learned and ingenious Note of Canon Westcott (Comm. on St. John, p. 298).]
[6286] In the original the definite article is omitted. But this, though significant, can surely not be supposed to prove that the expression is equivalent to a gift of the Holy Ghost.' For, as Meyer has pointed out, the word is used in other passages without the article, where the Holy Ghost is referred to (comp. St. John i. 33; vii. 39; Acts i. 2, 5).
[6287] This alone would suffice to show what misinterpretation is sometimes made, by friend and foe, of the use of these words in the English Ordinal.
[6288] Book iii. ch. xxxvii.
[6289] St. Matt. xvi. 19; xviii. 18.
[6290] Acts xv. 22, 23.
[6291] 1 Cor. v. 4, 5, 12, 13; 2 Cor. ii. 6, 10.
[6292] The decrees of the first Councils should be regarded not as legislative, but either as disciplinary, or else as explanatory of Apostolic teaching and legislation.
[6293] It must, however, be remembered that Thomas did not deny that Christ was risen - except as in the peculiar sense of the Resurrection. Had he denied the other, he would scarcely have continued in the company of the Apostles.
[6294] Significantly, the expression for fear of the Jews' no longer occurs. That apprehension had for the present passed away.
[6295] St. John i. 45-51.
[6296] Canon Westcott.
[6297] St. John xx. 30, 31.
[6298] St. Matt. xxviii. 16.
[6299] The account of St. Luke (xxiv. 44-48) is a condensed narrative - without distinction of time or place - of what occurred during all the forty days.