mystery of Redemption is notably expressed. The hymn also contained the words which are quoted in ch. xxi. 9, 42. Our Lord is frequently said to have prayed while on earth ; never to have sung.
31. UdvTig u/z£%, all ye) Our Lord had before foretold the crime of a single traitor. — tfxavSaX/otfjjffgffde, shall be offended) So that your faith in Me shall totter exceedingly. The same word occurs in Rom. xiv. 21. — ys/paffra/, it is written) The disciples might conclude that the prediction was about to be fulfilled that night, from the conjunction of the smiting of the shepherd, and the scattering of the sheep. — -rara^w, / ivill smite) sc. with the sword, put by metonymy for the Cross, concerning which it was not the part of the prophets to write more expressly. In Zee. xiii. 7, the LXX. * have xdra^ov rbv <roif^sva) xai biaaKOpKiG&rifcrat ra TpoSara, smite the Shepherd) and the sheep shall be scattered' God smote Jesus, since He delivered Him to be smitten. — diaffxopKi(tdrtfftrai, shall be scattered) The whole protection of the disciples, before the advent of the Paraclete, consisted in the presence of Jesus ; who being smitten, they wrere dispersed. — ra Kpofiara, the sheep) The disciples were representatives of the whole flock which they were afterwards to collect.
32. Tipod^a, 1 will go before) As a shepherd. A pastoral ex pression. — raX/Xa/af, Galilee) Where His appearance was to be exceedingly solemn to His sheep again collected together. Our Lord says to those who had come up with Him from Galilee, " Before you return home from the feast I will rise from the dead."
33.2 El xai vavrsg, x.r.X., Even though all, etc.) He might rather
reason, suppose that the hymn was recited whilst they were yet in the sup per room ; but that the words of Jesus, in chapters xv. and xvi. of John, and also the prayers, ch. xvii., were spoken in the open air (ver. 1, "Jesus lifted up His eyes to heaven "), in the court of the house where He had supped, and within the city. — Harm., p. 522.
1 So the Ed. of Grabe and Breitinger from the Cod. Alexandr. The text of Reineccius has vxTei?iotrf rovs iroiftwcc.;, a»i ix.a'ffotaoiTi ra, Trpo&otiroc.. — E. B.
2 The word jca.1 is pronounced by the margin of both Ed. spurious; but the Germ. Vers. answers to the Gnomon. — E. B.
AECDabc omit x.»i, reading only ii. Vulg., however, has "etsi :" and Orig. 4, 41 2c ; 437tf, Hil. 742c/ read si *«/.— ED.