Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
At the desire of the Priests the populace chose Barabbas, which is interpreted ‘the son of a Father,’ thus shadowing forth the unbelief to come when Antichrist the son of sin should be preferred to Christ.
