28/42 17,' [is more than we can understand. To us the expression seems most repulsive. No 'antithetic force' can outweigh our dislike to the idea that Barabbas was our Saviour's namesake! We prefer Origen's account, though he mistook the cause, to that of the modern critic.] FOOTNOTES: [61] It is clearly unsafe to draw any inference from the mere omission of [Greek: ede] in ver. 35, by those Fathers who do not shew how they would have began ver. 36--as Eusebius (see below, note 2), Theodoret (i. |