Judge,' and the offender. These were surrounded by a group probably of the Disciples, and such of the people as might have been listening to His teaching when this unseemly interruption was made. And in their hearing, and in their midst, He speaks those words of mercy and of warning which follow. To condemn here means to pronounce sentence upon. "They not having condemned her, whose proper office it was, neither would Christ, whose proper office it was not." She stands silent and full of shame, saying nothing in her own defence. And to her the Saviour saith, not, as to some of His stray sheep, Go in peace, but rather, Go in penitence. He dismisses her, as He dismissed the impotent man at Bethesda, with a merciful "Sin no more."

1 St. Luke xii. 14.

* Bp. Horne in D’Oyly and Mant.

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