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Luk 9:51. Ἀναλήψεως, of His being received up [of His assumption]) An appropriate term, especially after His glorification on the mount: comp. Act 1:2. There was but one day of His being received up into heaven; but the forty days after the resurrection, nay, even these days before His Passion, were equivalent to a Preparation (parascene): comp. Luk 2:22. There were still imminent His passion, cross, death, sepulture; but through all these Jesus looked onward to the goal; and this feeling of His is imitated by the style of the Evangelist. He who is aiming at reaching the city, and must pass a rugged part of the path to it, does not mention the path but the goal, when he wishes to say whither he is going. [The passages, Luk 9:51; Luk 10:38; Luk 13:10; Luk 13:22; Luk 13:33; Luk 17:11; Luk 18:31; Luk 18:35; Luk 19:11; Luk 19:28, with which comp. Luk 9:31, subsequently bring Him on nearer and hearer towards Jerusalem, and cannot be understood excepting of one and the same journey.--No other journey can be placed between this journey and the Passion itself, excepting that secret going up to the Feast of Tabernacles, Joh 7:10.-Harm., p. 387.]-τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, His face) Luk 9:29.-ἐστήριξε) Eze 28:21, שים פּניך, LXX. στηριξον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου. And so often. Add Isa 50:6-7, τὸ πρόσωπόν μου οὐκ ἀπέστρεψα ἀπὸ αἰσχύνης ἐμπτυσμάτων-ἔθηκα τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ὡς στερεὰν πέτραν, καὶ ἔγνων, ὅτι οὐ μὴ αἰσχυνθῶ. [A firm resolution is of the greatest use in the case of difficulties.-V. g.]-εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, to Jerusalem) Luk 9:31. Herein is seen the fruit of the ‘appearance’ on the mount [Luk 9:31].