g, in the highest) Succour [us], O Thou who art in the highest.
10. Atyouffa, saying) sc. from amazement. — r/$, x.r.X., who ? etc.) The chief personage is not immediately seen in a large concourse ; nor had the Jews been accustomed to see Jesus journeying except on foot.
11. 'O Tfop7jr»js, the Prophet) Jesus was first acknowledged as a Prophet, then as Priest and King. — 6 avb Nafapsr, of Naza reth) This was a customary appellation [for Him].
12. 'Ep/3a>.£, cast out)1 though He was meek, and had been just called so in ver. 5. In the early part of His ministry, our Lord had purified the temple ; see John ii. 14. Those who profaned it had, however, returned ; and now, when near the end of His course, He purifies it once more, though it was soon to be de stroyed ; see ch. xxiii. 38. — -rat/rag, all) A great miracle. Even a large body of soldiers would not have ventured to attempt it. — roi)? #wXoDi/r«j, x.r.X., those who sold, etc.) They had wished to offer every accommodation for public worship, especially at the time of the Passover ; but by degrees they appear to have pushed their licence further. — ev T& hp&,2 in the temple) and in deed in its uttermost part, the court of the Gentiles ; where the Gentiles [or nations'] were wont to pray. See Mark xi. 17.
a note to his German Version, he says, " That is, Let him, who cometh here, be in the name of the LORD blessed." For some account of the Hebrew Accents, see p. 132, f.n. 5.— (I. B.)
But Engl. Ver., " Cometh in the name of the Lord :" joining ly 6v6p,a.Ti with Ipjofyuttof. — ED.
1 This casting out did not occur on that very day, a day so full of grace and joy ; but when men refused to obey the intimation conveyed by His eyes and look (of which Mark, ch. xi. 11, makes mention : [in the 'eventide' of the same day "Jesus entered the temple, and looked round about upon all things," and not until the morrow He "began to cast out them that sold." — ED.]), the Lord on the following day exhibited more severe specimens of His most just indignation. Comp. with this, Mark xi.15. — Harm., p. 447-
2 The fuller reading, \v TU itpu TOV ©sot/, which the larger Ed. had pro nounced to be an inferior reading, is regarded as almost equal in authority to that of the text by the margin of the Ed. 2 and the Germ. Vers. — E. B.
There is no primary authority for the fuller reading here. E/? ro [fpov, omitting ®tov in the beginning of the sentence, is read by Lachm., with BL6 Orig. Hilar. 713, Memph. and Theb. Versions. Dae Vulg. and Rec. Text add ">w QioiJ. — ED.