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them every day during the interval, but as Bengel remarks, ‘‘interjectis diebus nulla fuerat apparitio”’. On the first day of the second week the disciples were ‘‘again,” as on the previous Sunday, “within,” in the same convenient place of meeting, and now Thomas is with them. As on the previous occasion (ver. 10), the doors were shut and Jesus sud- denly appeared among them and greeted them with the customary salutation.— Ver.27. Εἰταλέγει... πιστός. Hedoes not need to be informed of Thomas’ in- credulity; although it is quite possible that, as Liicke supposes, the others had mentioned it to Him. Still, this is not in the text. Cf. Weiss, who also quotes Bengel’s characteristic note: ‘* Si Phari- saeus ita dixisset, Nisi videro, etc., nil impetrasset; sed discipulo pridem pro- bato nil non datur’’. Weiss supposes the hands were seen (ie), the side only touched under the clothes. Some suppose that as the feet are not men- tioned in this passage, they had not been nailed but only bound to the cross. See Liicke’s interesting note. καὶ μὴ γίνου ἄπιστος ἀλλὰ πιστός, “ Incre- dulitas aliquid habet de νο]απίατίο
Ver. 28. Grotius, following Tertullian, Ambrose, Cyril and others, is of opinion that Thomas availed himself of the offered test: surely it is psychologically more probable that the test he had insisted on as alone sufficient is now repudiated, and that he at once exclaims, Ὅ Κύριός µου καὶ 6 θεός pov. His faith returns with a rebound and utters itself in a confession in which the gospel culminates. The words are not a mere exclamation of surprise. That is for-
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bidden by ἐἶπεν αὐτῷ; they mean “ Thou art my Lord and my God”. The re- peated pronoun lends emphasis. In Pliny’s letter to Trajan (112 A.D.) he describes the Christians as singing hymns to Christ as God. Our Lord does not reject Thomas’ confession; but (ver. 29) reminds him that there is a higher faith than that w hich springs from visual evi- dence : “Ort ἑώρακάς pe... καὶ πισ- τεύσαντες. Jesus would have been better pleased with a faith which did not τε- quire the evidence of sense: a faith founded on the perception that God was in Christ, and therefore He could not die; a faith in His Messiahship which argued that He must live to carry on the work
of His Kingdom. The saying is cited _
as another instance of the care with which the various origins and kinds of faith are distinguished in this gospel. Vv. 30-31. First conclusion of the gospel—Ver. 30. πολλὰ μὲν οὖν... τούτῳ. That this was the original or intended conclusion of the gospel is shown by the use of the words ‘‘in this book,’’ which indicate that the writer was now looking back on it as a whole (Holtzmann). Perhaps τούτῳ is em- phatic, contrasted with the Synoptic gospels in which so many other signs were recorded, The expression πολλὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἄλλα is necessarily of fre- quent occurrence and is illustrated by Kypke. Beza says these particles in the usage of John ‘“ proprie conclusionibus. adhibentur’’. ‘‘ Many other signs there- fore” (R.V.) is not an improvement on A.V. ‘And many other signs truly. i ‘Many other signs indeed did Jesus ”’ is sufficient. Why ἐνώπιον τῶν μαθητῶν ?