Verse 70
70. Chosen Our Lord’s reply sifts them down to a visible remainder of eleven who are pronounced not reprobate; chosen and true elect.
A devil Whether this word here is to signify adversary, accuser, prosecutor, calumniator, or devil, commentators differ largely. But thus much is plain; the speaker could not but know that the last and worst of these meanings was the most obvious, being the then most common. It could not have been, therefore, an unmeant meaning. He is called a devil, perhaps, as now having in his will a readiness for a devilish act. Or, it may be, from his relation to Christ as a dark opposing figure in the sacred circle, a miniature antichrist. Or, devil, because a fallen angel an apostate apostle.
Be the first to react on this!
