28. “Therefore,” as you do not now clearly understand, you shall understand it, “when you shall have lifted up,” etc., that is, raised Him and suspended Him on the cross, as explained by Himself (12:33). Commentators carefully note, regarding the word, “lifted up,” “exaltaveritis,” that the humiliation and scandal of the cross was the source of our Lord’s greatest exaltation (Phil. 2:8, 9). “Then you shall know that I am He.” The result following from Christ’s death, owing to the great miracles which
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