Christianity. No earthly monarch can bestow immortality on any action, even though he employ all his wealth and power to do so. — fLvrtfioewov, a memorial) The memory of the godly may flourish, even though their names be unknown.1
14. TiopsuSiis, departing2} The disciples were not under re straint. The wicked could depart when he would.
15. "Effrqaav, they weighed out5} The LXX. frequently render the Hebrew 7pt? (to weigh out, or pay) by I<ST^I, and in Zech. xi. 12, where the prediction occurs concerning these thirty pieces of silver, the very word 'icrr^av is found. — rpiaxovra apyvpia, thirty pieces of silver) Such was the value of a slave, in Exod. xxi. 32 ; that of a freeman was double.
17. T5j 8e KpuTp run uty/Auv, now on the first day of unleavened bread} It was now Thursday, the fourteenth day of the first month ;4 cf. Exod. xii. 6, 15. — -roD, where ?) They ask not whether, but where, they should prepare the Passover.5 Jesus
1 Comp., however, John xii. 3 [from which it seems the name of the woman is known, viz. Mary], and footnote on ver. 6 above, extracted from the Harm. Ev. : and again, the Gnomon on Luke xxiv. 18. — E. B.
2 Judas departed, doubtless, about the nightfall of Wednesday. On that very night, being possessed by Satan, he seems, as we have reason to think, to have had an interview with our Lord's adversaries, but on the following day to have fixed with them on the further proceedings. — Harm., p. 496.
3 In the original Gnomon no rendering is given for l'<mj<7«j>. In his Harmony, Bengel renders it bieten — they tendered, or proffered ; in his German Version schiessen — which seems to mean " they threw, counting it as they threw it." Engl. Vers. has, " they covenanted with him_/br." — (I. B.)
Beng. seems to take £<rr-/i<reiy in the sense " they weighed out to him." So "lo-rypt is found used in Homer's Iliad xix. 247, xxii. 350) more than once ; lit., I place in the balance, I poise. — ED.
4 Nisan 14, April 4. Greswell.—(I. B.)
On which they were bound to put away all leaven ; and so the consump tion of the paschal lamb could not be put off beyond 24 hours, to the even ing of the Friday. — Harm., p. 499.
* Nor even do they say, When ? all that they were concerned about was the supper-room where. Moreover, we may reasonably infer that the Jews also, and not Jesus alone, celebrated the paschal feast on the evening of Thursday, from the fact — 1) That otherwise the disciples would undoubtedly have been censured by the Jews at the close of the Friday, for omitting to keep the Passover, which they were not ; and 2) Because, on the year on which Christ suffered, the conjunction of the Moon and Sun, before the Pass over, fell on Wednesday, and therefore the new moon and Passover itself