That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should proclaim light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
That Christ should suffer Literally, if Christ be passible. If, here is expounded not as implying a condition, but as an affirmation; so that the sense is, that Christ, according to the predictions of the prophets, was to suffer, was to be the first that should rise from the dead (Witham)
First Many had been raised from the dead before Jesus; the child of the widow of Sarepta, Lazarus, and others. How, then, is Jesus first? He is the first who rises not to die again; and as such the Messias is always represented by the prophets. Others were raised from the dead, but returned again to their graves. Jesus dies no more. He is the first too who raises himself. (Calmet)
Festus saw the boldness, and what says he? For Paul was all along addressing himself to the king— he was in a manner annoyed, and says to him, You are beside yourself, Paul: for, while he thus discoursed, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are beside yourself: much learning does make you mad.
And Festus said with a loud voice— in such anger and displeasure (did he speak)— Paul, you are beside yourself. What then said Paul? I am not mad, etc. For this thing, he says, was not done in a corner.
