were wont thus to name the two places, which were most closely joined, Bethphage and Bethany.
2. Kupyv, village) Bethphage. — Ip' ov ovtitis,1 upon which no man) Not readily would there be found such a colt at one and the same time and place ; this one, therefore, was reserved for the Lord. Those creatures or things which are to serve Christ, must be free from all pollutions of sinful bodies ; see Matt, xxvii. 60. This colt, though untamed, yet bare Him as a sitter.
4. 'A/6pldov)*A/tpodw, a way, a broad street [Eng. Vers. where two ways meet].
10. Tod xarpbg qpuv Aau/($, of our father David) Construe with the kingdom \_For many acknowledge that the -words ev ovopan Kuplov have been repeated from the preceding verse. — Not. Crit.2 They call David their father, as being the king, the father of their nation. Yet, hoicever, we may suppose that the posterity also of David were mixed up with them. The throne of David has been assigned to the Messiah, Luke i. 32. — V. g.]
11. Tlipi[3\t-^(i>j,tvo;, having looked 1'ound about) His visitation. [Which, on the following day, He followed up with a most iceighty reproof. For if His expulsion of the money-changers had been repeated on each of the two days, Mark would use the verb r^aro with less propriety in ver. 15. In like manner, Luke assigns the plucking of the ears of corn and the healing of the withered hand to two distinct Sabbaths, though in Mattheiv and Mark that dis tinctness of the Sabbaths is less plainly marked. So Matthew sets forth at the same time, and together, all that happened in the case of the Jig-tree ; Mark divides the incidents respecting it between two days : so Matthew and Mark join the transfiguration with the account of the lunatic boy ; Luke (ch. ix. 37) represents the lunatic as healed on the following day after the Saviour's transfir- guration. — Harm., p. 447, 448.] — vavra, all things) What holy
1 The reading WTTU o&sl;, which had been deemed not worthy of approval in the marg. of the larger Ed., is judged equal to that of the text in Ed. 2, and is even approved by Vers. Germ. — E. B. Lachm. also so reads with BLA, Orig., and after dvOpavuv C, Truvvrt A, b Vulg. "nemo ad hue." Tisch. omits OVTTU with Dae. TraiTori evidently is an interpolation of Har monists from Luke xix. 30. — ED. and TRANSL.
2 A supports the sv ovoftttrt Kveitv of the Rec. Text. But BCD abc Vulg , Orig. 3.744, 4,182<r, omit these words. — ED. and TRANSL.