And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Ver. 40. And saying, Thou that, &c.] Dogs will be barking at the moon (as these dead dogs do here at the Sun of righteousness), At peragit cursus surda Diana suos. Christ goes on with the work, nothing retarded by their jeers and buffooneries. Didicit ille maledicere et ego contemnere, said he in Tacitus, Non tantum habemus otii, P. C., said Augustus to the senate, when they informed him of what such and such had said against him, We are not at leisure to listen to every slight slander raised of us. And of Severus the emperor it is recorded, that his care was, what was to be done by him, not what was said or censured of him. a "Do well and hear ill," is written upon heaven's gates, said that martyr. Railers are to be reckoned kill-Christs: words may more afflict than blows, Psalms 42:3; Psalms 42:10. As "with a murdering weapon in my bones," &c.
a Επιμελης ην των πρακτεων, αμελης των περι αυτου λεγομενων. Dio.