61. At/ca,«.a/ xaraXDffa/, x.r.7.., lam able to destroy, etc.) He had not said so. False evidence seizes upon some true par ticulars ; and a great calumny may frequently be produced by no great change of words. They distort the expression used by our Lord three years before, and now unconsciously subserve to its fulfilment.
62. T7, x.r.x., what etc. ?) A separate interrogation.
63. 'O T/6; ro\> ®to\j, the Son of God) Caiaphas, in common with the rest of his nation, did not entertain a merely political idea of the promised Messiah.
64. 20 £?T«C, Thou hast said) " With regard to the question of Caiaphas, our Lord declares that lie is the Christ, as though it were affirmed in the words of the interrogator. Nor is this form of speech uncommon in ordinary Greek discourse. In the Hyppolytus of Euripides, we find, cot rdb' OVK 1/ioD xXus/;,1 Thou hearest those things from thyself, not from me. And in the third book of Xenophon's Memorabilia, avrlg, l<pr\, roDro Xs/g/;, u ^uxpang, Thou thyself, said he, sayest this, 0 Socrates" — CAMBBABIUS. — TX^V, nevertheless) although ye do not believe it. — -rX^v as well as «XXa is frequently used epitatically.2 — «-' apn, x.r.X., From this time forward, etc.3) From this time for ward, it shall come to pass that ye shall see and know, by visible proofs, that I am HE who shall sit on the right hand of power, and come in the clouds of heaven. A pregnant mode of ex pression (sermo complexus). Henceforward YE SHALL SEE Me sitting and COMING.4 The return to judgment is combined with the sitting on the right hand : and after the Lord's Passion they believed (see John viii. 28), that which hereafter they shall see. They did not believe in the past ; therefore Jesus (as He frequently did) appeals to the future. In the glory of
the sins, such a precious ransom for the souls of men. — (I. B.) Rom. iii. 26.— ED.
1 Ed. Dindorf, line 352.— (I. B.)
2 See explanation of technical terms in voc. Epitasis. — (I. B.)
8 In the original a modo, which is found in the Vulgate. In his German Version Bengel renders it, Von nun an, i.e. from this moment, henceforth. E. V. renders it, hereafter.— (I. B.)
* Ye shall soon after this present time believe in my being the Son of God, and in this sense, by faith shall see me sitting ; and thereby shall perceive also that I am coming as Judge. — ED.