63. Aiyovresj xvpu, saying, my Lord) They cringe to Pilate : they had not addressed him so before. — ext/vo;, that) They al ready desired Jesus to be obliterated from the memory of all. — eyu'popai, I am raised) The present tense.
64. 'AtfpaX/a^jjyaw, to be made sure, to be secured) They igno- rantly minister to the confirmation of the truth. No human aotpdXsia (making sure) hinders God ; see Acts v. 23, xvi. 23-26. — TUI X«£, unto the people) The Pharisees supposed that they should not believe it themselves. They wish (as they per suade themselves) to take precautions for the people. — xai tarai i] ley^Tfi ?rXav»j, K.T.\., and the last error shall be, etc.) The latter victory of truth, however, spread more widely than the first. — I] Iff^arjj, the last) A similar mode of expression occurs in 2 Sam. xiii. 16.
65. "E^ire, x.r.X., ye have, etc.) Pilate gives the guards quickly ; and yet, as it were with indignation (cf. ch. xxviii. 11, 12), dismisses the calumniators quickly also.
66. 'Uffipa^lffavTo, they secured) This is the whole: the parts were the seal, and the watch.
1. 'o-v^s, after) i.e. after the Sabbath ; cf. Mark xvi. 1. E. Schmidius compares with this expression that of Plutarch, 6-4/e TUV /3aff/Aew£ xpovuv, after the times of the king ; and that of Philos- tratus, 6-vf/s TUV Tpu'ixuv, after the Trojan war.1 Now with the new week very different matters arise. — tfo$|3arw — oajSjSdTuv,2 genitive plural of sd(3i3arov, the Sabbath) The Vulgate has Sabbati — Sabbati, genitive singular, in both places, and it does not stand alone. — ffafBfSdrou — aafifiaruv, the first in the genitive singular, the second genitive plural, is the middle reading be-
1 We may translate the Greek words thus: — "On that day which com mences from the evening after the Sabbath, and on the following morning dawns upon the first day of the week." This was Sunday, very early in the morning. — Harm., p. 584, etc.
2 This too is the reading of E. M.— (I. B.)