6. Ka/ Koifjffavrts, and ivhen they had done.
1. 'Ex-sxatiicKv.* He sat upon) becomingly ; His disciples at tending on Him ;5 see Luke xix. 35. The Persian kings were rather placed by others, than themselves got on horseback. See Brisson. — i-ravu avruv, on them) though, strictly speaking, on the foal ; see Mark xi. 2, 3 ; John xii. 14, 15.
8. 'O oz vXzTsros o^Xoc, but the people, who ivere in great num bers. — iv rip 08 M, in theivay) [i.e in the midst of the way or road] ; not only xara r^v oUv, by the side of the way ; for St Luke (xix. 36) uses the expression brwrfwm*?, they spread them under, [i.e. so that He should ride over them]. — xXaSoug, branches) It was customary with the Jews and other ancient nations to mani fest their public joy by cutting down branches from trees.
1 Lit. " Himself saving." — (I. B.)
2 It is this very virtue that renders both her King, and the tidings as to the approach of her King, so delightful to the daughter of Sion. — V. g.
3 Literally, the son of one who bears the yoke ; rendered accurately by the Vulgate, which Bengel has followed here, filium subjugalis. He has not been equally exact in his German Version. — (I. B.)
4 BC Origen read, as Beng., &7nx.ot,6iaiv. He sat : abed also have ' sedebat :' D has ex.iii)riTo. Vulg. has imposnerunt ; and so Rec. Text lvtx.a.6iaot.v, they set Him thereon. This last plainly comes through Harmonists from Luke xix. 35, fTrefiipxa&v, they set Jesus thereon. — ED.
5 That is, His disciples helped Him to mount, which harmonises the state ments, that He sat upon the colt, in Matt., and that His disciples set Him on, in Luke. — ED.