She beholds Him (with Lazarus at His side) reclining in her sister's house at supper, amid circumstances of mystery which fill her soul with awful anticipation.

She divines, with love's true instinct, that this may prove her only opportunity.

Accordingly, she '_anticipates_ to anoint' ([Greek: proelabe myrisai], St.Mark xiv.

8) His Body: and, yielding to an overwhelming impulse, bestows upon Him all her costly offering at once!...

How does it happen that some professed critics have overlooked all this?
Any one who has really studied the subject ought to know, from a mere survey of the evidence, on which side the truth in respect of the text of this passage must needs lie.
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