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Mat 26:31. Πάντες ὑμεῖς, all ye) Our Lord had before foretold the crime of a single traitor.-σκανδαλισθήσεσθε, shall be offended) So that your faith in Me shall totter exceedingly. The same word occurs in Rom 14:21.-γέγραπται, it is written) The disciples might conclude that the prediction was about to be fulfilled that night, from the conjunction of the smiting of the shepherd, and the scattering of the sheep.-πατάξω, I will smite) sc. with the sword, put by metonymy for the Cross, concerning which it was not the part of the prophets to write more expressly. In Zec 13:7, the LXX.[1141] have ΠΆΤΑΞΟΝ ΤῸΝ ΠΟΙΜΈΝΑ, ΚΑῚ ΔΙΑΣΚΟΡΠΙΣΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ ΤᾺ ΤΡΌΒΑΤΑ, smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. God smote Jesus, since He delivered Him to be smitten.-διασκορπισθήσεται, shall be scattered) The whole protection of the disciples, before the advent of the Paraclete, consisted in the presence of Jesus; who being smitten, they were dispersed.-τὰ πρόβατα, the sheep) The disciples were representatives of the whole flock which they were afterwards to collect.
[1141] So the Ed. of Grabe and Breitinger from the Cod. Alexandr. The text of Reineccius has πατάξατε τοὺς τοιμένας, και ἐκσπάσατε τὰ πρόβατα.-E. B.