³¹ Lit., makest a word for him.

³² See note 5, p. 420

³³ Procidentes; but this, according to the Greek, should be procedentes, coming before Him.

³⁴ [The Latin has Arimathia; an din the next clause there are variations in the MSS.-R.]

³⁵ Another reading is compunctus, pricked. The reading in the text, obstructus, is a curious mistranslation of the word in the Greek, peritetmhme/noj, cut away all round, i.e., circumcised; or, by an obvious transition, hemmed in-the meaning adopted in the version before us.

³⁶ Confirmabimus.

³⁷ [Comp. Mark xvi. 15-19; from the disputed ending of that Gospel.-R.]

³⁸ Concidebantur, a mistranslation from considering e0ko/ptonto as passive, they were cut, instead of middle, they beat their breasts.

³⁹ i.e., servants.

⁴⁰ The Greek r9h=ma means thing as well as word.

⁴¹ Perhaps this would be better as a question: Is it good?

⁴² Lit., mouth.

⁴³ Or, its. The text of the clause is corrupt.

⁴⁴ i.e., was tried before.

⁴⁵ Comp. Ps. cxviii. 23.

⁴⁶ Ps. lxxii. 11, 17.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.