LUKE 24:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.”
But they were kept from recognizing him — they were kept from recognizing him (ekratounto tou mē epignonai auton, they were held so that they could not recognize him): the divine action preventing recognition. The prevented recognition is not a failure of their perception but a divine withholding that serves the narrative purpose.
Church Fathers on Luke 24:16
After the manifestation of Christ’s resurrection made by the Angels to the women, the same resurrection is further manifested by an appearance of Christ Himself to His disciples; as it is said, And behold two of them.
Some say that Luke was one of these two, and for this reason concealed his name.
Or to two of the disciples by themselves our Lord showed Himself in the evening, namely, Ammaon and Cleophas.
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