phets and wise men, as Ezra did. In these last the character is for the most part acquired ; in wise men, innate ; in prophets, inspired.1 Therefore the world hates and despises prophets most, wise men much, scribes less, yet not little. — a-Toxrsvs/rs, ye shall kill) as James [the son of Zebedee]. — araupuffsTt, ye shall crucify) as Peter and Andrew, although Peter suffered martyr dom elsewhere.
35. "E>J?j, may come) This is repeated in ver. 36, sc. %z.si} shall come. Cf. Luke xi. 50, etc. — crac, all) especially that of the Messiah Himself. Cf. Luke xiii. 33. — «///,«, blood) This word occurs thrice in this one verse with great force. — s-/c%vv6(j,tvov, which is being shed) The present tense is used to show that the blood-shedding was not yet concluded. — ETT/ rr±$ y?jc, on the whole earth) Cf. Gen. iv. 11. — Za^apiov viov Bapa^/ou, Zacharias the son of Barachias) whose prophecy and death are mentioned in 2 Chron. xxiv. 20— 22. 2 The Jews say a great deal about him. See Lightfoot.3 — roD NaoS, the Temple} Jesus spake these words
1 In the original, infusus; literally, infused. — (I. B.)
2 And who, as Michaelis, in derEinl., etc., T. ii., p. m. 1078, 1079, shows at large, is called in the Gospel of the Nazarenes. according to Jeromes statement, not the Son of Barachias (as it is found in our Greek copies), but the Son of Jehoiada. Indeed it would not be amiss to compare this with what S. R. D. Crusius, Hypomn., p. i. p. 301, suggests, viz., that Jehoiada [= the knowledge of the Lord] received the surname from the Blessed Jehovah, because that he had preserved the house of David, by having stealthily saved Joash from being murdered, and by having subsequently placed him on his father's throne, after having slain Athaliah, owing to which meritorious deed he was ever after commonly called by this honourable title. — E. B.
3 To understand these words of a certain Zacharias, the son of Baruch, a person of proved excellence, who was killed in the midst of the temple (as Josephus records) a short while before its destruction, as Kornmann and others think, we are not bound to the end that the glory of Christ's Omni science may be maintained inviolate : for, in fact, this prophecy concerning vengeance impending over that generation, as well as many other prophecies, was proved by its fulfilment. Luke, in the passage in question, is speaking only of Prophets : but the Zacharias of Josephus was not a prophet. Indeed Christ had many reasons for making mention of the former Zacharias above others. It is such personages in this passage (as in Ezek. xiv. 14) that are especially referred to and quoted, who have their names recorded HI Scrip ture : and that ancient Zacharias, as in the similar instance of Abel, was accounted by the Jews without dispute as a Saint and Prophet ; nay, indeed