and rulers who crucified Him. Now to-day it is the third day since these things were done. Yea, some women, also of our company, who have been at the sepulchre, say He is alive.
When Jesus had heard these words, He said to them: “O foolish and slow of heart to believe all[1] the things which the prophets have spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so enter into His glory?” Then, beginning with Moses and the prophets, He explained to them everything[2] in the Scriptures that was said in relation to Himself.
When they reached Emmaus, He made as though he would go farther, but they pressed Him to remain with them, as the day was far spent. He remained accordingly. But when they sat down to table, He took bread, and blessed, and broke[3], and gave it to them. And immediately their eyes[4] were opened, and they knew Him. But He vanished[5] from their sight. They then said to one another: “Was not our heart burning[6] within us whilst He was walking in the way?”
- ↑ Believe all. How imperfect is your understanding of the Scriptures! You have, indeed, the will to believe, and are not stiff-necked like the Pharisees, but you have much to do before you can rid yourselves of your false hopes about the Messias, and can believe all that has been written concerning Him.
- ↑ Everything. i. e. all the types which foreshadowed the Messias (such as Isaac, the brazen serpent, the paschal lamb &c.), and all the prophecies, which showed that Christ ought to have suffered what He did suffer, and enter into His glory through His sufferings.
- ↑ And broke. He did exactly as He had done at the Last Supper, and therefore gave them His own Body under the form of bread, to be the Food of their souls.
- ↑ Their eyes. Were opened as soon as they had received the Holy Eucharist.
- ↑ Vanished. For the object of His apparition was accomplished, as soon as they had recognised Him, and were convinced of the reality of His Resurrection.
- ↑ Burning. They had felt so wonderfully drawn to Him while He was speaking with them, that now’ they felt they ought, by their feelings, to have recognised who He was.
