Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Since you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.
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Jerome
AD 420
He who was within two days to celebrate the passover, to be delivered to the cross, and mocked by men, fitly now holds out the glory of His triumph, that He may overbalance the offences that were to follow by the promise of reward. And it is to be noted, that He who shall be seen in majesty is the Son of Man.
Also the goat is a salacious animal, and was the offering for sins in the Law; and He says not ‘the goats’ which can produce young, and come up shorn from the washing.
This “prepared for you from the foundation of the world,” is to be understood as of the foreknowledge of God, with whom things to come are as already done.
