13.—The Discourse of Jesus to the Disciples.

The Discourse of Jesus to the Disciples.

Read St. Luke xxiv.  22-27.

[22] Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us, who before it was light, were at the sepulchre, [23] And not finding his body, came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who say that he is alive. [24] And some of our people went to the sepulchre, and found it so as the women had said, but him they found not. [25] Then he said to them: O foolish, and slow of heart to believe in all things which the prophets have spoken.

[26] Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into his glory? [27] And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the things that were concerning him.

1.  These disciples had so completely lost all hope that, instead of taking courage when the holy women had announced the vision of angels and the news of the Resurrection, they were only frightened by it.  They took a gloomy view of what ought to have cheered and encouraged them; they were obstinate in their grief and disappointment.  This it was that made them so hopeless: they refused to look at the bright side of things.  This is generally the secret of utter hopelessness; there is something willful in it.  We should have more hope if we had more submission to the holy will of God.

2.  When the disciples have finished the story, Jesus takes up the tale.  He at once tells them the plain truth — that they are fools not to accept the women’s story, not to believe all that was written respecting Christ in the prophets of old.  There is no folly like incredulity.  We have Christ’s own word for it.  Would that skeptics would take this to heart, instead of priding themselves on their fancied discernment.

3.  Then He shows them that all these sufferings were the very proof that Jesus was the Messiah that the prophets one and all bear testimony to, the necessity of His first suffering and then entering into His glory.  This is the Divine law for all the followers of Jesus — first suffering, and then glory.  If I desire glory in heaven, I must not shrink from suffering now.

Christ appears to the Apostles on the road to Emmaus. Mosaic (6th)

 


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