And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit:
and having said this, he gave up the spirit.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit. The Arabic has pono, Tertullian depono (cont. Prax. cap. xxv.). The Hebrew word Hiphid means the same as our "commend." "My Spirit." S. Athanasius in his work De Human. Nat. cont. Apollin, says, "When Christ said on the cross, Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit, He commends all men to the Father, to be, by Him and through Him, restored to life; for we are members, and those many members are one body, which is the Church. He commends therefore all who are in Him to God." Christ therefore, according to S. Athanasius, calls men His soul and spirit. What then ought we not to do to profit and save souls, that we may keep as it were for Christ, His soul and spirit? So S. Paul to Philemon and Onesimus, "His bowels." "He gave His life," says S. Cyril, "into the hands of His Father (Lib. ii on John chap. xxxvi.), that by this and through this, as a beginning, we might have certain hope of this, firmly believing that we shall be in the hands of...
, laboured to present to us the very Christ! He calls with a loud voice to the Father, "Into Thine hands I commend my spirit".
that even when dying He might expend His last breath in fulfilling the prophets. Having said this, He gave up the ghost.".
and again, (in the third Gospel, ) "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.".
He commends His spirit into the hands of the Father.
He had vinegar and gall to drink; and when He had fulfilled all things that were written, He said to His God and Father, "Into Thy hands I commend my spirit.".
and had added, "Into Thy hands I commit my spirit "He gave up the ghost,
