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Mat 27:16. Ἐπίσημον, notorious) A well-known robber, notorious for the gravest crime.[1185] And yet he was preferred to Jesus. How great contempt! Soon after, in the ignominy of punishment, He was preferred to two other robbers.-λεγόμενον Βαραββᾶν, called Barabbas) who was much talked about. It is probable that Barabbas survived long as a monument of the history of Jesus. Barabbas signifies “son of his parent;” he had been longed for, loved, spoiled, by his parent.
[1185] One who was, moreover, guilty of that very crime (treason) of which Jesus was accused; nay, even guilty of a worse crime. However, it was by the death of Him who was the Just One that those very persons, who had deserved death, are set free.-Harm., p. 550.