many words. — * acrornXXs/, he sends)* The present tense is used because the event was sure and speedy, as they were already prepared to send it : cf. Mark iv. 29, wd'sus avoffri-XXei ™ fye- KO.VOV, immediately lie sendeth the sickle. — See ibid. xi. 6, -x.a.1 aprixav avrous, and they let them go.
5. E/Vars, x.r.X., tell ye, etc.) This passage is one of those which show that many things in the prophets ought to be received by us, not only as they were meant by them, but as they were destined to be meant by the apostles. This part occurs in Isa. Ixii. 11 ; the rest in Zechariah, whom St Matthew quotes, beginning at the more important part ; for the word " rejoice" is thus supplied. At the time of its fulfilment it is to be told : joy then arises spontaneously.3 In Zech. ix. 9, the LXX. have X«7/Jf apodpa ^uyanp 2/wv, xqpufffft ^vyarep ' IspovffaXrifJi' /dov, 6 Ba<r/- Xsug* tpytrttf aoi, dixaiog Kai ffu^uv Aurbg-5 Kpqvg xai J/^/Ss/S^xwg litl veov, — Rejoice greatly, daughter of Sion ; shout,6
1 Such is the reading also of Griesbach and Scholz. E. M. reads «rc-
(the future), rendered therefore in E. V. " he will send." In his App. Grit. Bengel writes —
" aTroimAAs/) Comp. Er ed. i. et seqq. ; Stop. Aug. i. 2 ; Bodl. 1, 2, 7 ; fiu. Byz. Cov. i. Cypr. Gal. ; Gehl. Go. Laud. 1,2. 5; Lin. Lips. Mont, manu prima, M. 1, Mosc. N. 1, Par. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 ; Per. Roe. Steph. omn. vss. 1, 2, Wh. 1 nonnulli codd. upud Er. vel etiani Barb, decem, et Cam. item Chrj/s. Theopltyl. Cant, latine, Syr. Accedunt Evangelistaria, Aug. 4 (in quo cum verbum hoc jam A simplici scriptum fuisset, A alterum estsuppletum), Bodl. 4, 5, Laud. 4, Wh. 3. Itaque otirwrri'h'htt Matthsei, et dvoart'hii Marci se mutuo confirmant, nam librarii videntur lectionem «7ro<mAA£/ ex publica Matthsei recitatione ad Marcum traduxisse, et aliquando u.vo<nthtl a Marco ad Matthseum retulisse. Vid. Gnom. (u.voa-Tt'fi.tT) Lat. et inde Er. vel etiam Parisini et Seldiani aliquot, cum Bodl. 6, Cant, grsece, Gon. Hunt. 2 Magd. et perpaucis aliis." — (I. B.)
2 'AcromA« is the reading of BDfec Vulg. Orig. and Rec. Text, and so Lachm. and Tischend. 'A^OOTEAA^ is read by CLXZArf. — ED.
3 Beng. seems to mean, the introductory words in Zech. ix. 9, " Rejoice greatly," etc., " Shout," etc., are omitted here, on the occasion of the passage being quoted by St Matthew, because, at the time of the fulfilment of the prophecy, all that was needed was the telli-ng (and therefore " Tell ye" is sub stituted from Isa. Ixii. 11, " Say ye") : the joy was sure to arise of its own accord. — ED.
4 The Codex Alexandrinus reads fteta^ev; aw. — (I. B.)
5 The Oxford Edition of 1848 has a comma after w^av, and omits the colon after AVTOJ. — (I. B.)
6 The word denotes, in the orig., the voice of a herald or a preacher. — (I. B.)
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daughter of Jerusalem : behold the King cometh unto thee ; He is just and having salvation : x meek, and riding on an ass, even a young colt. — r5j 'svya.rp) 'Ztuv, to the daughter of Sion) put synec- dochically for Jerusalem. — EaaiXevg sou, thy King) and also Bride groom. — GDI, to, or for thee) sc. for thy sake or advantage. — •rpay; xai, x.r.X., meek and, etc.2) The same thing is frequently ex pressed in the same passage by literal and metaphorical words. The horse is a warlike steed, which the King of Peace did not make use of; see Zech. ix. 10. He will make use of it here after ; see Rev. xix. 1 1. — ovov, an ass) not a she ass. In Hebrew, "lion. — uibv vKofyyiov, the male foal of an ass3) who, though the offspring of one that had borne the yoke, had not himself yet borne it. Our Lord rode upon the foal, but employed also the mother as a companion to the foal.