The Pulpit Commentary — Luke — Volume 2 — Section 260

ing or t.he Resurrection have been already and then add, "and they stood still, looking oommcnt.Pd upou. To a village C!Llled Em- sad." This change is, of course, of no great maua. This EmmRus, the narrative tells import1mce, but it considerably adds to the us. WM Rbout sixty furlongs-some six vividness of the picture. miles and a half-from the holy city. It Ver. 18.-Alld the oue of them, whose wR.s situRted east-south-east from Jeru- name waa Cleopas. Tbis nnme is a Greek salem. The name is oouneoted with the contraction of Cleopatro,, and points to modern Arabic term Hammam (a bath), Alexandrian antecedents. Dean Plump- and indicates probably, like the Latin tre suggests that this may in part, perhaps, .Aq,1~. or the French Aix, aud the English account for this Cleope.s, not improbably a. "Bath," or" Wells," the presence of medi- Jew of Alexandria, imparting to St. Luke cinal springs; and this may possibly account what had not found its way into the current for St. Luke the physician's attention having oral teaching of the Hebrew Church at in the first inst.Rnce been drawn to the spot. Jerusalem, e.s embodied in the narratives This Emms.us is now called Kuu,nieh. A of SS. Matthew and Mark. Art thou only ourious Talmudical reference, quoted by a stranger in Jerusalem 1 better translated, Godet, belongs to this place Eruma,us, now dost thou alone B(!iourn in Jerusalem, and Jiulonieh: "Ai Manza, they go to gather not know, etc.? That is to say, "Art thou the green boughs for the Feast of •.raber- the only stranger in Jerusalem who does nacles" (Talmud, ' Succa,' iv. 5). Else- not know about the wonderful events which where it is said that "Mauza is Kulonieh." have just to.ken place in the holy city?" Yer. 15.-While they communed to- Ver. 19.-Aud they said unto him, Con- gether and reasoned, J'esus himself drew cerning Jesus of Nazareth, whioh was a nes.r, and went with them. One, if not the Prophet mighty in deed and word before first, fulfilment of the comforting promise, God and all the peoplo. To the Stranger's "Where two or three are gathered together question, "What things have so lately ex- in my Name, there am I in the midst of cited Jerusalem?" they both probably burst them." Compare also the words of Malachi, out with "the Name," then doubtless on " Then they that feared the Lord spake often eJJ. lips in the holy city," Jesus of Nazareth," one to another: and the Lord hearkened, the hated and adored Name. And then they and heard ii" (iii. 16). went on with a further explanation to One Ver. 16.-~ut their eyes were holden, who seemed a stranger just arrived: they that they should not know him. So Mary explained who this Jesus was supposed to Magdalene looked on and failed to recognize have been. "He was a. Prophet mighty in at first the Person of her e.dored Master deed and word before God and all the (John xx. 15). So by the lake-shore, as he people," which Lange happily paraphrases stood and spoke to the tired fishermen, they "equally great in secret contempfative who had been so Jong with him knew him holiness and in public acts of beneficence." not. Some mysterious change had been But then the "two" explained, " '.I'his ho wrought in the Person of the Lord. Between was; for he is no more. Our chief priests the liesnrrection and the Ascension, men e.nd rulers have done him to deo.th, They and women now looked on him without a have crucified him." gleam of recognition, now gAzed on him Ver. 21.-But we trusted that it he.d knowing well that it was the Lord. "It is been he which should have rodeemed Israel. vain,'' writes Dr. Westcott, "to give any And we who were his friends and followers, simply natural expla,nation of the failure we thought we had found in him the Re- of the disciples to recognize Christ. After deemer of Israel, King Messiah I Think I the Resurrection he was known as he pleased, the Redeemer crueiji,ed I Although the Re- and not necessarily at once. . . . Till they deemer, in the sense they proho.bly under- who gazed on him were placed in something stood the word, was snmething very different of spiritual harmony with the Lord, they to the sense we give to it, the idea was still <lOuld not recognize him." Tlie two on somi;thing very lofty and sublime. It in- their walk to Emmaus, and Mary Magdalene cluded, no doubt, much of earthly glory and in the garden, were preoccupied with their dominion for Israel, but in some definite l!Orrow. The fisher-disciples on the lake were 110nse the Gentile world, too, would she.re in preoccupied with their work, so that the the blessings of Messiah. And to think of vision of the Divine was obscured. The the shameful cross putting e.n end to e.11 these risen Christ will surely fulfil his own words, hopes I And beside all this, to-day is the "The pure in heart, they shall see God"- third day moe these things were done. wt onl11 the pure in heart. But yet terrible and despo.iring e.s was the Ver. l7.-Whatmannerofcom.m1lllications story of Cleopas and his friend, their tone are th•e that ye have oue to 61lother, a.a ye was not quite hopeless; for they wont on, walk, aJld are 1111d t The older authorities " And now we have come to tho thirrl. day make the question atop at "as ye walk," since they crucified him." No doubt they 011. xx1v. 1-53.) 'fHE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE. 271