Verse 26
26. Ought not Christ He speaks the great word; not prophet but
Christ, the Messiah. To have suffered Here is a great question. Even to this day infidels like Gibbon object that the Messiah of prophecy is but a conquering hero. But is he not too a suffering Messiah? Prophecy written and uttered does indeed say much more of the glorious than of the suffering Messiah. But what mean those visible and acted prophecies the sacrifices, the bloody ritual of the Old Testament, if they did not prefigure the great sacrifice which had just been offered in Jerusalem? Those had been a constant acted and visible prophecy of a suffering Messiah.
Enter into his glory By ascension. So that his suffering should be on earth, and his glory at the right hand of God.
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