But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
But He passing through the midst of them went His way. Maldonatus thinks that Christ here made Himself invisible, S. Ambrose and Bede that He changed their wills, so that they consented to let Him go. Others hold the better opinion that Christ turned away their imagination or their eyes, or suspended their consciousness and held their hands and feet, so that, like men bereft of their senses, though they saw Him they could not or dared not lay hold of Him. Wherefore Christ here manifested His Godhead. S. Ambrose says, "Behold! the minds of these furious men, being suddenly changed, or stupefied, He goes down through the midst of them." And he adds the reason, "For when He wills He is taken; when He wills He slips away; when He wills He is slain; because His hour had not yet come," John vii30. For as yet he must preach, and at last be crucified at Jerusalem by the Father"s decree, but not cast down headlong in Nazareth. So Bede, S. Chrysostom, Euthymius, and others. Brocardus, in his "Description of the Holy Land," gives the tradition that Christ glided away from out of the hands of the Jews, and suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the mountain, and that therefore the place is called "the Leap of the Lord." N. de Lyra adds that the rock on which Christ stood yielded, and received like wax the impress of His feet, just as, when ascending into heaven from Mount Olivet, He left the marks of His feet there. This is what Adrichomius says, in his "Description of the Holy Land," on the word "the Leap of the Lord:" "The tradition is that Christ fled to a high mountain, which is called from that circumstance "the Leap of the Lord," and that, at the touch of His garment, the rock flowed, and being melted and loosened like wax, made a kind of hollow for the Lord"s body to be received in and protected, a hollow of a capacity equal to the quantity of the Lord"s body. And in this, even at the present day, the lineaments and folds of the garment on the Lord"s back, and the marks of His feet are preserved, marked out as though by the hand of a sculptor." This, however, lacks confirmation.
On verse32see what I have said on Matthew 13:5, Matthew 8:14; on verse33see Mark 1:23.
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