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Joh 20:21. Πάλιν, again) They had not yet altogether comprehended the force of His former salutation: therefore it is repeated, and so is enlarged by additional words.-εἰρήνη, peace) This constitutes the foundation of the mission of the ministers of the Gospel: 2Co 4:1, “Seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.”-καθὼς, even as) Christ is “the Apostle” of the Father, Heb 3:1 : Peter and the others were apostles of Christ. He does not discuss at large the subject of His resurrection, but takes for granted the evidence for it, and gives further instructions.-ἀπέσταλκε· πέμπω) These two verbs differ: in ἀποστέλλω the will of the Sender, and of Him who is sent, is had respect to; in πέμπω, the will of the Sender, as distinguished from the will of the person sent.-πέμπω, I send) Both this, and what goes before and what follows, are parallel to Isa 61:1, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good tidings-He hath sent Me,” etc.