7. 'AXX' virayen, but go your way} in antithesis to [ver. 6] He is not here ; [ver. 7] there shall ye see Him. — KOI r& iitrpw, and Peter) who subsequently proclaimed this testimony in his Acts and Epistles. \_How great must have been the refreshment of spirit, as we may suppose, afforded by this to that disciple, overwhelmed as he was by sorrow ! — V. g.]
8. Tp6/j,o?, trembling) of body. Comp. 1 Cor. ii. 3, note. — sxgTuffis, stupor [amazement]) of mind.
9. TIput, early in the morning) Construe with Ipavjj, He ap peared. Comp. ver. 12. However, it was on that very day the Lord arose, before the dawn.
12. 'Eripa, another [different]) This is the intermediate step of His revelation between His announcement of the fact by mes sengers, and His manifest appearance : just as the number two [viz. of those to whom He here appears] is intermediate between the one single female messenger and the many witnesses. — [«/V aypw, into the country) towards Emmaus. — V. g.]
13. 'Acr^y/s/Xai') They brought back icord. — ovdi sxsivoig, not even them) Luke, xxiv. 34, affirms they did believe. Both state ments are true. They did believe : but presently there recurred to them a suspicion as to the truth, and even positive unbe lief. The faith suddenly arising in them, and entertained at first with a joy which had still in it something of an unwonted and ecstatic character blended with it, wras not faith, as compared with the faith which followed, cleared as the latter was of all dregs of unbelief, and fully satisfied as to all difficulties, and suitable to the exigencies of the apostleship. Luke xxiv. 37, 38 ; John xx. 25 ; Matt, xxviii. 17.
14. "Tarepov, lastly) The last of His appearances, not absolutely, but of those which Mark describes ; [and which occurred on the very day of the resurrection. For Mark adds: When the eleven sat at meat ; and therefore he does not speak of the appearance on the mountain of Galilee, which He Himself touches on most briefly, in ver. 7, and Matthew, xxviii. 16, expressly records. — Harm., p. 604.] — dvaxtifAsvo/:, as they sat at meat) At the time when men are most exhilarated by the coming of those whom they were earnestly wishing for. — avroTg, themselves) together. — uvti&ust, He upbraided) This takes for granted that the proofs of the resur rection were undoubted. [A wholesome putting of them to