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Mat 27:4. Ἥμαρτον, I have sinned) Thus also the damned will feel in hell.[1171]-αἷμα ἀθῶον, innocent blood) Miserably involved in his own darkness, he no longer acknowledges Jesus as the Messiah.-τί πρὸς ἡμᾶς, what is that to us?) See how they dismiss, without remark, the question as to the innocence of their Victim.[1172]-σὺ ὄψει, see thou to that) The ungodly, though associating in the commission of a crime, desert their associates when it has been accomplished:[1173] the godly, though not taking part in the crime, endeavour, after its commission, to save the sinner’s soul. Comp. Mat 27:24.
[1171] And O that the friends of Christ, moved by faith, love, and hope, would confess the truth as openly as men in despair are wont at times to do, when they feel that they have now no longer any opportunity of earning merit in the eyes of the world!-Harm., p. 542.
[1172] In the original, “Vide, quam transiliant τὸ innocentem;” literally, “See how they leap over the ‘innocent;’ ” referring to the words of Judas, “INNOCENT blood.”-(I. B.)
[1173] But still punishment at last awaits all severally, according to the part which each took in the deed.-V. g.