Zechariah 12:10

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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Now, indeed, that body is worthy of a heavenly dwelling place, not subject to death, not changeable through the ages [of life]. For as he had grown to that age from infancy, so he does not decline to old age from the age which was young adulthood. He remains as he ascended; he is going to come to those to whom, before he comes, he wanted his word to be preached. So therefore he will come in a human form. The ungodly too will see this; those placed to the right will see it too; those separate to the left will see it too, as it was written, “They shall see him whom they have pierced.” If they will see him whom they have pierced, they will see the same body that they thrust through with a spear, [for] the Word is not struck by a spear.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

And perhaps it is then that the words “all flesh” will become more perfectly fulfilled. Now I mean to say, flesh has seen him, but not all flesh. Then, however, at the judgment, as he comes with his angels to judge the living and the dead, “when all who are in tombs hear his voice and come forth, some to the resurrection of life, others to the resurrection of judgment,” it is not only the just but also the wicked, those on the right, these on the left, who will see that form which he pleased to take on for us. Even those who killed him “will look on the one whom they have pierced.” So “all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” Body will be seen by body, because he will come to judge him in his real body. But to those placed on the right and sent on into the kingdom of heaven, he is going to show himself in the same way as he could already be seen in the body; and yet he had said, “Whoever loves me shall be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.”

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

“For the Lord shall build up Zion.” This work is going on now. O you living stones, run to the work of the building, not to ruin. Zion is building; beware of the ruined walls. The tower is building, the ark is in building; remember the deluge. This work is in progress now, but when Zion is built, what will happen? “And he will appear in his glory.” That he might build up Zion, that he might be a foundation in Zion, he was seen in Zion, but not in his glory: “We have seen him, and he had no form or comeliness.” But truly when he shall have come with his angels to judge, shall they not then look upon him whom they have pierced? And too late they shall [be] put to confusion, who refused confusion in early and healthful repentance.

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Bede

AD 735

He commanded them, among other things, to pray as follows: “And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” Or [it may be that] he calls his disciples “evil” because in comparison with the divine goodness, every creature is judged to be evil, as the Lord says, “No one is good except God alone.” It is only by participation in the divine goodness that a rational creature is recognized as being capable of becoming good. Hence the Lord also bears witness by a benevolent promise that your heavenly Father will “give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.” This is to the point that those who of themselves are evil can become good through receiving the gift of the Spirit. He pledged that his good Spirit would be given by the Father to those asking for him, because whether we desire to secure faith, hope and charity, or any other heavenly goods at all, they are not bestowed upon us otherwise than by the gift of the Holy Spirit. So it is that the same spirit, in Isaiah, is named the spirit o... Read More

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Prayers. Septuagint and Chaldean, "pity. "(Haydock) After the Machabees more synagogues were erected, and the people were more faithful; yet this chiefly regards the new law, in which the spirit prays with us ineffably, Romans viii. 26. (Calmet) Me. So far the prophet speaks in Christ's name. He afterwards relates how the people will grieve for him, beating their breasts, Luke xxiii. 48. This was clearly verified in Christ, John xix. 31. (Menochius) But in the gospel we read, him whom they have pierced, as the context seems here to require. (Haydock) Some Hebrew copies read in like manner, (Calmet) the Erfurth Manuscript 2 having aliu, "on him "though Michaelis remarks not this important variation. The Jewish transcriber would not alter his text to make it conformable to the New Testament. (Kennicott) Septuagint, "they shall look upon me for having insulted "or skipped. (Calmet) Yet "St. John did not much regard what the Greek contained, but interpreted word for word as he had re... Read More

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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235

Then shall the son of perdition be brought forward as the accuser, with his demons and with his servants, by angels stern and inexorable. And they shall be given over to the fire that is never quenched, and to the worm that never sleeps, and to the outer darkness. For the crucifiers shall see him in human form, as he appeared to them “when he came” by the holy virgin in the flesh and as they crucified him. And he will show them the “prints of the” nails in his hands and feet, and his side pierced with the spear, and his head crowned with thorns, and his honorable cross. And once for all shall the people of the Hebrews see all these things, and they shall mourn and weep, as the prophet exclaims, “They shall look on him whom they have pierced.”

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Justin Martyr

AD 165

And what the people of the Jews shall say and do, when they see him coming in glory, has thus been predicted by Zechariah the prophet: “I will command the four winds to gather the scattered children; I will command the north wind to bring them, and the south wind, that it not hold back. And then in Jerusalem there shall be great lamentation, not the lamentation of mouths or of lips but the lamentation of the heart; and they shall not rend their garments but their hearts. Tribe by tribe they shall mourn, and then they shall look on him whom they have pierced; and they shall say, ‘Why, O Lord, have you made us to err from your way? The glory which our fathers blessed has for us been turned into shame.’ ”

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