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Mat 27:50. Κράξας, κ.τ.λ., having cried, etc.) A free laying down of life. He was not deprived of life by the power of the cross employed by men; see Mar 15:44; but yet they are rightly said to have killed Him, because they did so, as far as lay in their power.-ἀφῆκε τὸ πνεῦμα, He gave up the ghost) The Divine history records the death of Jesus Christ in few words; the homilies and epistles of the Apostles preach the fruit of that death in many: thus the Gospel furnishes the wool, the Apostle makes the dress; which similitude is used by Macarius in his Treatise, de Elevatione mentis, cap. 19. The word κοιμᾶσθαι, to sleep, is never employed concerning the death of the Saviour (cf. Mat 27:52), but ἀποθνήσκειν, to die, which verb expresses the truth, the gravity, the brevity, and the virtue of Christ’s death.[1211]
[1211] By it God was reconciled. Truly, a most precious moment!-V. g.