“There are good grounds for questioning the correctness of the Greek reading, which in the Vulgate is translated ‘coena facta’; for the _present_ participle (γινομένου) and not the past (γενομένου) is found in many MSS. of the highest authority. Finally, it is obvious that, considering the special signification of the Greek verb employed (γίνομαι _to be, to come into being_), even the _past_ participle by no means implies that the supper was then over, but merely that it had commenced, and was then going on. The same participle is used unquestionably in this sense in many passages of the New Testament; as, for instance, in John xxi. 4: ‘When morning _was come_;’ in Mark vi. 2, ‘_during_ the Sabbath;’ Matt. xxvi. 6, ‘Jesus _being_ now at Bethany,’ and in many other passages” (Dr. Walsh, _Harmony of the Gospel Narratives_, note 19.) The meaning, then, is that supper was proceeding. *The devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him.* This inhuman treachery was suggested by Satan, but freely consented to by the wretched Apostle. The treachery of Judas is here mentioned to throw into relief the loving mercy and condescension of Jesus in washing even the traitor’s feet. 3. Sciens quia omnia dedit ei 3. Knowing that the Father had Pater in manus, et quia a Deo given him all things into his exivit, et ad Deum vadit. hands, and that he came from God, and goeth to God. 3. While fully conscious of His dignity, of His supreme dominion over all things, and of the fact that He had come out from the bosom of God in the incarnation, and would return thither by His resurrection and ascension, He yet makes Himself as it were the servant of His Apostles. 4. Surgit a coena, et ponit 4. He riseth from supper, and vestimenta sua: et cum layeth aside his garments, and accepisset linteum, praecinxit having taken a towel, girded se. himself.