_What are these wounds in thine hands? &c._
Both Lowth and Blayney agree in regarding these words as an allusion to
the custom of the idolatrous priests and prophets, of marking themselves
in the hands. Their being challenged as the marks of Paganism, is a
sufficient proof of their being so, and I have rendered it accordingly,
_marks_ instead of _wounds_. For if, as Blayney states, they were made by
cutting and slashing themselves, still the marks, and not the wounds,
would remain when healed.