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Mat_26:24. Ὑπάγει ] μεταβαίνει ἀπὸ τῆς ἐνταῦθα ζωῆς , Euthymius Zigabenus. Comp. οἴχεσθαι , ἀπέρχεσθαι , äÈìÇêÀ . Jesus is conscious that His death will be a going away to the Father (Joh_7:33; Joh_8:22).
καλὸν , κ . τ . λ .] well would it have been for him, etc.; for in that case he would not have existed at all, and so would not have been exposed to the severe punishment (of Gehenna) which now awaits him. Comp. Sir_23:14; Job_3:1 ff.; Jer_20:14 ff., and the passages from Rabbinical writers in Wetstein. The expression is a popular one, and not to be urged with logical rigour, which it will not admit of. The fundamental idea embodied in it is: “multo melius est non subsistere quam male subsistere,” Jerome. Observe, further, the tragic emphasis with which ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος is repeated; but for καλὸν ἦν without ἄν , see Buttmann, Neut. Gr. pp. 188, 195 [E. T. 217, 226]; and on οὐ as a negative, where there is only one idea contained in the negation, consult Kühner, II. 2, p. 748; Buttmann, p. 299 [E. T. 347]. Euthymius Zigabenus aptly observes: οὐ διότι προώριστο , διὰ τοῦτο παρέδωκεν · ἀλλὰ διότι παρέδωκε , διὰ τοῦτο προώριστο , τοῦ θεοῦ προειδότος τὸ πάντως ἀποβησόμενον · ἔμελλε γὰρ ὄντως ἀποβῆναι τοιοῦτος οὐ ἐκ φύσεως , ἀλλʼ ἐκ προαιρέσεως .