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sufficient ; Pilate's plain duty was then to release and protect, 

 but instead of doing so he sent our Lord to Herod. When our 

 Saviour came back, there was more reason for release than 

 before, for Herod also vouched that no fault could be laid to 

 the charge of the Divine Prisoner. 



^Nevertheless, Pilate, fearing the Jews, wickedly tried to com- 

 promise, and said he would chastise our Lord and then release 

 Him. But the Jews then raised their bloodthirsty shout, and 

 though Pilate still desired to release our Lord, he weakly 

 descended to argue with his subjects, and at last, coward as he 

 was, basely gave way to their evil desires. 



Our Lord's obedience to human laws is still further empha- 

 sized by a triplication (No. 16) of testimony from Herod, 

 from the penitent thief, and from the centurion at the 

 Cross. 



In the last section of St. Luke's Gospel, which contains the 

 account of the Eesurrection, we find a triplication (No. 17) 

 which emphasizes that great event as well as the Death of 

 Christ. The memory of former prophecies is brought before 

 the disciples in an ascending scale : on the first occasion, the 

 two men in dazzling apparel at the empty tomb reminded the 

 women of our Lord's own predictions of His sufferings and 

 Eesurrection ; afterwards the Eisen Christ referred the two on 

 the way to Emmaus to the prophecies of Moses and of all the 

 Prophets about Himself, suffering and entering into His glory; 

 while, later on, our Lord reminded the assembled believers of 

 His own words, and He also referred to the prophecies in the 

 Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms conceruing 

 Himself, His Death, and His Eesurrection. 



Finally, comes a triplication (No. 18) complementary to the 

 last ; it demonstrates how fully the disciples received and 

 understood the meaning of our Lord's Death and Eesurrection in 

 fulfilment of prophecy. We are told that their eyes were opened, 

 and they knew the Lord ; their heart burned within them when 

 He opened to them the Scriptures, and again we read that our 

 Lord opened their mind that they might understand the Scrip- 

 tures. It is noteworthy that the Greek word to open in each 

 component of this triplication is Scavoiyco, a word seldom used 

 in the New Testament, and only in one other place in the 

 Gospel of Luke (ii, 23), where the meaning is evidently to open 

 fully, which is the true meaning of the word. In both the 

 Authorized and Eevised Versions, however, this emphatic com- 

 pound word and also the simple avoiyw, from which it is 

 derived, are always translated by the same English word 



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