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d e and delivers Jesus to be
crucified.
5. Jesus is mocked and led forth, ii. The Third Hour.
The Vinegar and Gall : the Cross : the Garments di vided: the Inscription on the Cross : the two Thieves : the Blasphemies, iii. From the Sixth to the Ninth hour : the Darkness : the De sertion. 13. The Death.
The Vail Rent, and the great Earthquake.
The Centurion wonders
Women behold. ^. The Burial. d. Saturday.
The Sepulchre guarded, B The Resurrection :
«. Announced to the Women.
1. By the Angel,
2. By the Lord Himself, /3. Denied by His Enemies, y. Shown to His Disciples.
the
15-26 27-32
33-44
45-49
50-53
54-56 57-61
62-66
xxviii. 1—8
9, 10
11-15
16-20
1. B//3Xoj Ttvsasug — the Book, or Roll, of the Generation) A phrase employed by the LXX. in Genesis ii. 4 and v. 1. The books of the New Testament, however, being written at so early a period, abound with Hebraisms : and the Divine Wis dom provided, that the Greek version of the Old Testament should prepare the language, which would be the fittest vehicle for the teaching of the New. This title, however, the genealogy,1 refers, strictly speaking, to what immediately follows (as appears from the remainder of the first verse), though it applies also to the whole book, the object of which is to prove that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of David, etc., [in whom, as being the promised Messiah, the prophecies of the Old Testament have received their fulfilment. Hence it is that from time to time the evangelist fre-* quently repeats the formula, " That it might be fulfilled." — Vers. Germ.] See ver. 20, and ch. ix. 27, etc. For Scripture is wont to combine with genealogies the reasons for introducing them. See Gen. v. 1 and vi. 9. — 'l»jtfoD Xp/cvov, of Jesus Christ) The compound appellation, JESUS-CHRIST, or CHRIST-JESUS, or the simple one of CHRIST, employed by antonomasia,2 came into use after the Pentecostal descent of the Holy Spirit. The four Gospels, therefore, have it only at their commencements
1 Recensio Ortfa. Tabulw recensionis was an expression applied to the Censor's Register. Ortus signifies both origin by descent and birth. -(I. B.)
2 See Appendix on this figure. The substitution of an appellative term of designation, instead of a proper name. — ED.