[1232] These tunnels were divided by colonnades respectively into three and into two, the double colonnade being probably used by the priests, since its place of exit was close to the entrance into the Court of the Priests.
[1233] Jos. War vi. 3. 2.
[1234] Sanh. xi. 2.
[1235] St. John ii. 14; St. Matt. xxi. 12; Jerus. Chag. p. 78 a; comp. Neh. xiii. 4 &c.
[1236] The question what was sold in this market' and its relation to the bazaar' of the family of Annas (the Chanuyoth beney Chanan) will be discussed in a later part.
[1237] The question as to their names and arrangement is not without difficulty. The subject is fully treated in The Temple and its Services.' Although I have followed in the text the arrangements of the Rabbis, I must express my grave doubts as to their historical trustworthiness. It seems to me that the Rabbis always give rather the ideal than the real - what, according to their theory, should have been, rather than what actually was.
[1238] Acts iii. 2.
[1239] For a full description, I must refer to The Temple, its Ministry and Services at the time of Jesus Christ.' Some repetition of what had been alluded to in previous chapters has been unavoidable in the present description of the Temple.
[1240] Although comparatively few really great authorities in Jewish Canon Law lived at that time, more than a dozen names could be given of Rabbis celebrated in Jewish literature, who must have been His contemporaries at one or another period of His life.
[1241] So according to the Rabbis generally. Comp. Hoffmann, Abh. ii. d. pent. Ges. pp. 65, 66.
[1242] St. Luke ii. 43.
[1243] In fact, an attentive consideration of what in the tractate Moed K. (comp. also Chag. 17 b), is declared to be lawful occupation during the half-holydays, leads us to infer that a very large proportion must have returned to their homes.
[1244] For a full discussion of this important question, see Appendix X.: The Supposed Temple-Synagogue.'
[1245] Sanh. 88 b.
[1246] Comp. Jer. Ber. iv. p. 7 d, and other passages.
[1247] The expression snesis means originally concursus, and (as Schleusner rightly puts it) intelligentia in the sense of perspicacia qua res probe cognitae subtiliter ac diligenter a se invicem discernuntur. The LXX. render by it no less than eight different Hebrew terms.
[1248] The primary meaning of the verb, from which the word is derived, is secerno, discerno.
[1249] Jer. Pes. vi. 1; Pes.66 a.
[1250] St. Matt. xxii. 42-45.
[1251] Jos. Ant. xv. 8. 5.
[1252] According to Jer. Ab. Z. 44 d, the soil, the fountains, the houses, and the roads of Samaria were clean.'
[1253] Maas. Sh. v. 2.
[1254] This is implied in the use of the present participle.
[1255] The first day would be that of missing Him, the second that of the return, and the third that of the search in Jerusalem.
[1256] The expression n tos to patrs mou may be equally rendered, or rather supplemented, by in My Father's house,' and about My Father's business.' The former is adopted by most modern commentators. But (1) it does not accord with the word that must be supplemented in the two analogous passages in the LXX. Neither in Esth. vii. 9, nor in Ecclus. xlii. 10, is it strictly the house.' (2) It seems unaccountable how the word house' could have been left out in the Greek rendering of the Aramæan words of Christ - but quite natural, if the word to be supplemented was things' or business.' (3) A reference to the Temple as His Father's house could not have seemed so strange on the lips of Jesus - nor, indeed, of any Jewish child - as to fill Joseph and Mary with astonishment.
[1257] The voluntariness of His submission is implied by the present part. mid. of the verb.