resurrection (John xxi. 5), vaidla, children,1 and brethren (cf. ch. xxviii. 10 ; John xx. 17 ; and cf. therewith Ib. xiii. 1) ; and this appellation He will repeat at the judgment-day. How great is the glory of the faithful ! see Heb. ii. 10, 11, 12, etc. During the time of His humiliation (exinanitionis) the honour of Jesus was guarded, lest from such an appellation He might appear to be of merely common rank ; but in His state of exal tation no such danger exists. Observe, however — (1) that Christ addresses no one as brother in the vocative ; the case is different in ch. xii. 48, 49, and Heb ii. 11, 12 ; (2) that Scripture does not call Christ our brother ; and (3) that it would not have been suitable in Peter, for example, to have said, Brother, instead of Lord, in John xxi. 15, 20, 7 (see Ibid. xiii. 13). Even James, called by others the Lord's brother, calls himself the servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, James i. 1. Jude also, in the first verse of his epistle, calls himself the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James ; see also Matt, xxiii. 8 ; Luke xxii. 32. Amongst mortals, unequal fraternity is so maintained, that the superior friend honours the inferior by the title of brother ; whilst the inferior addresses the superior by his title of honour. Thus also the heavenly court has its own etiquette, without any conflict between humility and confidence. Thus, also, the appellation of friend appears one-sided, so that the Lord calls His own, "friends" but is not so called by them : see John xv. 15. We must except the faith whose freedom of speech at tains to that of the Canticles. — ruv sAa;£/<rrwv, of the least) sc. outwardly, or even inwardly. A certain species is pointed out in the whole genus of saints : there are some who have received, others who have conferred favours. — 'E,uoi s^oi^sart, ye have done it unto Me} not merely to Me also, but TO ME absolutely ; cf. ou3s 'E,tto/ svoiqffan, neither have ye done it unto Me, ver. 45.
41. ToVs, K.r.X., then, etc.) And then the righteous shall im mediately, by virtue of the word " come," sit on kingly thrones (regaliter) as assessors in the judgment on the cursed. — rb TiToipafffAivov, which is prepared) Thus is Is. xxx. 33. At the time of this judgment the devil will be already in hell ; see Rev. xx. 10-13 ; cf. 2 Pet. iii. 7, fin.
1 Pmrulos — TTot-illa. being the plural of Ketibiov, which is the diminutive of •*•*!;.— (I. B)