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Luk 23:42. Μνήσθητι, remember) He makes request modestly. ‘Remembrance’ extends to a far distant period (i.e. he means that the remembrance which he craves may hold good in a time yet to come, and a far way off). A most choice prayer.-Κύριε, Lord) He publicly addresses by the appellation, Lord, Him whom His own disciples themselves had abandoned.-ἔλθῃς, when thou shalt have come) hereafter, viz. from heaven. The antithesis to this is Jesus’ expression in Luk 23:43, To-day,-ἐν τῇ-σου) in Thy kingdom. He acknowledges Him as King, and a King of such a sort as can, though dead, benefit the dead. Not even the apostles at that time entertained so pure sentiments concerning the kingdom of Christ (without mixture of the alloy of notions concerning a temporal kingdom then).-βασιλείᾳ, kingdom) Frequent mention of His Kingship and kingdom had preceded. See Luk 23:2-3; Luk 23:37-38. Faith accepts in serious earnest the truth, which has been distorted and perverted into a subject of sneering by the Lord’s adversaries.