The expression of a wondrous power of life and spirit in the last sign of life, the triumphant shout in death, was to him a new revelation. Death he must have often witnessed, on the battle-field, in the amphitheatre at Cæsarea, in tumultuous insurrections in Palestine, but never before had he been confronted with the majesty of a Voluntary Death undergone for the salvation of the world. That he so cried out] The whole demeanour of the Divine Sufferer, the loudness of the cry, and the words He uttered, thrilled the officer through and through. when the centurion] in charge of the quaternion of soldiers. ![]() Schanz characterises Mk.’s account as “schöner psychologisch” (psychologically finer).Ĭambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 39–41. What of the φέρουσι in Mark 15:22? And is there not something docetic in self-rescue from the pangs of the cross, instead of leaving the tragic experience to run its natural course? Mt.’s explanation of the wonder of the centurion, by the external events-earthquake, etc.-is, by comparison, secondary. ![]() But it may be questioned whether this view is in accord either with fact or with sound theology. says that the loud voice showed that Jesus died κατʼ ἐξουσίαν, and Theophylact applies to the ἐξέπνευσεν the epithet δεσποτικῶς. This was a natural impression on the centurion’s part, and patristic interpreters endorse it as true and important. The thing that chiefly impressed him, according to Mk., was the manner of His death.- οὕτως ἐξέπνευσεν = with a loud voice, as if life were still strong, and so much sooner than usual, as of one who, needing no Elijah to aid Him, could at will set Himself free from misery. ![]() give the Greek ἑκατόνταρχος.- ἐξ ἐναντίας ( χώρας), right opposite Jesus, so that he could hear and see all distinctly. κεντυρίων, a Latinism = centurio, for which Mt.
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