John Bengel Commentary - Matthew 26:24 - 26:24

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John Bengel Commentary - Matthew 26:24 - 26:24


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Mat 26:24. Ὑπάγει, goeth) Through Passion to Glory.-καθὼς γέγραπται, as it is written) And therefore the woe does not affect the Son of Man. A consolatory consideration.-οὐαὶ δὲ, but woe!) The Divine foreknowledge of the traitor’s sin does not diminish its heinousness.-ἐκείνῳ, to that man); concerning which very man also it has been written.-παραδίδοται, is betrayed) By this word something further is added to ὑπάγει, goeth.-εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη, if he had not been born) sc. if he either had not been conceived, or had died before his birth; see Job 3:2; Job 3:10-11. This phrase does not necessarily imply the interminable eternity of perdition: for it is a proverbial expression; cf. Luk 23:29; Sir 23:19 (Gr. Mat 26:14).[1124] Judas obtains a situation of exclusively pre-eminent misery amongst the souls of the damned. For so long a time he accompanied our Lord, not without sharing the sorrows connected therewith; a little before the joyful Pentecost he died.-Ὁ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟς ἘΚΕῖΝΟς, “THAT” man) The words, “that man,” might seem a predicate. THAT is the designation of one who is considered already far off.

[1124] In the LXX. and Eng. Vers. it stands as the 14th, in the Vulgate as the 19th verse.-(I. B.)

A degree of misery is here awarded to him greater than that which is set forth in ch. Mat 18:6.-V. g.