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Joh 20:29. Ἑώρακας) thou hast seen and hast touched Me.-πεπίστευκας, thou hast believed) Thou dost exercise faith.-μακάριοι, blessed) The blessedness of Thomas is not denied, but the rare and richly-favoured lot of those is specially declared, who believe without seeing. For even in the case of the rest of the apostles, it was when they had seen, and not until then that they believed. [There is hardly a doubt but that the apostles accounted the general multitude of believers who had not seen Jesus, as standing higher in that respect than themselves.-V. g.]