296 v. 13. Two of them w ent to Emmaus. They were ju st ordinary disciples of whom we have never heard before, yet Jesus spent more tim e w ith them than ■. ■ perhaps w ith any COMMENTS FROM one else afte r His MANY SOURCES r e s u r r e c t i o n .— K eith L. Brooks Torrey. v. 14. T h e y talk ed together. This exquisite idyl of the resurrection is too lifelike and n a t u ral to have been invented. The sor rowful walk, th e reasonings, th e wonder th a t anyone could have been for ever so short a tim e in Jerusalem w ithou t know ing of th e events th a t filled th e ir souis, th e lingering hope, th e despair th a t the th ird day was waning and He had not come, the burning h eart— all these touches are full of n atu ra l pathos.— Meyer. v. 15. Jesu s drew near. It is in carnate Deity fresh from th e conflicts and the victories of the garden, the cross, the sepulchre. It is literally God w alking w ith men, men walking, though they knew it not, w ith God.—Hanna. A beautiful illu stration of th e promise in Matthew 18:20.— Camb. Bible. v. 16. Their eyes were holden. Mark says th a t our Lord appeared to them in ano th er form, while Luke here says th a t th e ir eyes were holden th a t they should not know Him. The one gives th e cause and th e other th e effect.— ' Alexander. How often does Jesus come to us and we discern Him not.— Mac- laren. Should no t know Him. There are two rem arkable instances of th e same fact (Jn. 20:14; 21 :4 ). It ac cords w ith the clear indications th a t the resurrection body of our Lord was a glorified body of which th e conditions transcended those of ordinary m ortal ity.— F a rra r. , T- W h at m anner of communica tions. I t needed no more th an this solitary word to unseal the fountain of th e ir lips, for th e clouds which had broken so wildly and d ark ly over Cal vary had filled th e ir h èarts w ith an intense and b itter grief which longed for expression, even for the poor relief wor<^s-— Burton. Ye w alk and are sad. All sadness arises from practical unbelief in God’s "Word.— Torrey. v. 19. Jesus of N azareth. They onlv called Him Jesus of Nazareth. They did not give Him th a t higher title, the Christ, which they had freely used be fore. The cross had rudely shattered th a t golden censer in which they had
T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S been wont to burn th e royal incense.— Exp. Bible. v. 21. We tru ste d it had been He. The plain fact is th a t Jesus a t the last had disappointed His disciples, disap- pointed His own relations, disappointed the masses of th e people, disappointed every one except Himself. He was never disappointed from th e first to the last moment of His course. W ithout a single complete example of success while He lived, and w ith constant discourage ment and apparent discomfiture,' He calmly believed in .the omnipotence of sp iritu al tru th and in th e divinity of His own mission.— Young. v. 24. H im they saw not. This shows how impossible is th e skeptical theory th a t th e disciples were misled by h al lucinations. They accepted nothing sho rt of most rigid proof for His resu r rection.— Camb. Bible. v. 25. O fools. The word so ren dered only means “w anting in thought, understanding and consideration” and does not imply any contempt.— Ryle. There are many fools today cut afte r th a t p attern . Jesus puts down anyone who doubts the prophets as a fool. T rue wisdom consists in believing all th a t the prophets have spoken.:—Torrey. Slow of h e a rt to believe. Of th e Scriptures they had believed a s.m u c h as fell in w ith th e ir preconceived prejudices and opinions— so often th e way w ith us all — bu t not “all th a t the prophets had spoken.” Man’s word, and woman’s word, and angels’ word— they had paid more or less heed to all these, bu t of God’s Word, th a t which liveth and abid- eth forever, they had not inquired nor sought to learn from it how it should fare w ith th e Christ of God; else they would have found th a t th e very things over which they were mourning had long been fore-announced and declared needful to His entrance into His glory. Trench. The one g reat misleading prejudice of th e disciples had been th eir belief th a t th e path of the promised Messiah was designed to be one of ea rth ly trium ph and glory.. To rectify th a t erro r it was only required th a t they should be made to see th a t th e pre dicted trium ph and glory were alone to be reached through th e dark avenues of suffering and of death.— Hall. v. 26. Ought n o t Christ to have suf fered? Such an exit of Christ from this world was in accord w ith th e deter mined p lan and purpose of God as re vealed in Old Testament S c rip tu re__ Evans.
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