Luke 24:37. Terrified and affrighted. John's account also implies this. It was now, not hopelessness, but terror in fear of the sudden appearance, at night too. If we bear in mind the command to go into Galilee (Matthew, Mark), we shall conclude that it was utterly unexpected.

And supposed that they beheld a spirit. A ghost, a departed spirit, returned in the semblance of a body. This assumes, and our Lord's words (Luke 24:39) teach, that there are disembodied spirits, Comp. Matthew 14:26, where a more general term is used.

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