Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
They then reviled him, &c. They cursed him, saying, Be thou accursed, or at all events heaped maledictions and reproaches upon him. But their curse was without effect, and was turned by Christ into a blessing. For it is an honour to the godly, to be cursed by the wicked. Whence S. Augustine says, "It is a curse if thou look into the heart of the speakers, but not if thou weighest the words themselves. May such a curse be on us, and on our children."
But we know not this man whence he Isaiah , whether sent by God, as was Moses, or by the devil. So Euthymius.
