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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
But how? They brought him bound. It was the custom that such men were brought bound and marked as condemned to death. And it signified that just as he destroyed our death by his death, so he destroyed the bonds of our sins by his bonds. And they delivered him to Pontius Pilate. And why? There is a threefold reason. One, the literal, was that he was the vicar of the emperor, and the Jews did not have the power of capital punishment. …
Rabanus Maurus
Though it should be observed that they did not now first bind Him, but before, when they first laid hands upon Him in the garden, as John relates. (John 18:12.)
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