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αὐτῶν Χρείαν ἔχει εὐθέως δὲ ἀποστελεῖ αὐτούς.͵ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ τοῦ προφήτου, λέγοντος,
ὅλον 1 γέγονεν, ἵνα πληρωθῇ
5. "Εἴπατε τῇ θυγατρὶ Σιών, Ιδού, 6 βασιλεύς σου ἔρχεταί σοι, πραύς καὶ "ἐπιβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ ὄνον καὶ; πῶλον υἱὸν Ὁ ὑποζυγίου. 6. Πορευθέντες δὲ of µαθηταί, καὶ ποιήσαντες καθὼς προσέταξεν ὃ 3 La) «3 A 3 1 ‘ a A Ags αὐτοῖς 6 ‘Ingots, 7. ἤγαγον τὴν Gvoy καὶ τὸν πῶλον, καὶ ἐπέθηκαν ἐπάνω ” αὐτῶν τὰ ἵμάτια αὐτῶν,» καὶ ἐπεκάθισεν ἐπάνω αὐτῶν. δὲ "πλεῖστος ὄχλος ἔστρωσαν ἑαυτῶν τὰ ἵμάτια ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ: ἄλλοι δὲ ἔκοπτον κλάδους ἀπὸ τῶν δένδρων, καὶ ἐστρώννυον ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ.
great).
ISQCDLZ omit ολον, which is found in ΒΝΣ.
22 (Weiss) (W.H. omit).
1 Cor. xiv. 27 (=at most, adv.).
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4. Τοῦτο δὲ κα here only in sense of mounting (cf, ¢m- βιβάζω in Lk, x. 34; xix. 35. Acts xxiii. 24). b here and in) 2. Pet. ii. 16. here only (=greatest art of), k. iv. x (W.H.) (avery ἆ Mk. xiv. 15. Lk. xxii.12. Acts ix. 34.
8. 6,
It is probably an echo of Ch. i.
2 «at επι in BLN. CD with many others omit the επι as in T. R. (ἐπὶ ὑποζύγιον καὶ πῶλον νέον in Zech. ix. g, Sept.).
3 ovveragev in BCD.
the interest awakened by His presence lessened.—Ver. 4. ἵνα πληρωθῇ: ἵνα is to be taken here as always in this Gospel, in its strictly final sense. Such is the view of the evangelist and the view he wishes his readers to take. But it does not follow from this that Christ’s whole action proceeded from a conscious inten- tion to fulfil a prophecy. On the con- trary, the less intention on His part the greater the apologetic value of the corre- spondence between prophecy and fact. Action with intention might show that He claimed to be, not that He was, the Messiah. On the other hand, His right to be regarded as the Messiah would have stood where it was though He had entered Jerusalem on foot. That right cannot stand or fall with any such purely external circumstance, which can at best possess only the value of a symbol of those spiritual qualities which constitute intrinsic fitness for Messiahship. But Jesus, while fully aware of its entirely subordinate importance, might quite con- ceivably be in the mood to give it the place ofa symbol, all the more that the act was in harmony with His whole policy of avoiding display and discouraging vulgar Messianic ideas andhopes. There was no pretentiousness in riding into Jerusalem on the foal of an ass. It was rather the meek and lowly One entering in character, and in a character not welcome to the proud worldly - minded Jerusalemites. The symbolic act was of a piece with the use of the title ‘‘Son of Man,” shunning Messianic pretensions, yet making them in a deeper way.—Ver. 5.
4 ex avtov in NBDLZ.
5 SSBD omit αντων.
The prophetic quotation, from Zech. ix. 9, prefaced by a phrase from Isaiah Ixii. 11, with some words omitted, and with some alteration in expression as com- pared with Sept.
Vv. 7-11. τὴν ὄνον καὶ τὸν πῶλον : that both were brought is carefully specified in view of the prophetic oracle as understood by the evangelist to refer to two animals, not to one under two parallel names. —éwé@nxav: the two disciples spread their upper garments on the two beasts, to make a seat for their Master.—xal ἐπεκάθισεν ἐπ. αὐτῶν : if the second αὐτῶν be taken to have the same reference as the first the meaning will be that Jesus sat upon both beasts (alternately). But this would require the imperfect of the verb instead of the aorist. It seems best, with many ancient and modern interpreters, to refer the second αὐτῶν tothe garments, though on this view there is a certain looseness in the expression, as, strictly speaking, Jesus would sit on only one of the mantles, if He rode only on one animal. Fritzsche, while taking the second 4. as referring to ἱμάτια, thinks the evangelist means to represent Jesus as riding on both alternately.— Ver. 8. ὁ δὲ πλεῖστος ὄχλος, etc., the most part of the crowd, follow the example of the two disciples, and spread their upper garments on the way, as it were to make a carpet for the object of their enthusiasm, after the manner of the peoples honouring their kings (vide Wetstein, ad [ος.).---ἄλλοι δὲ ἔκοπτον: Others, a small number com- paratively, took to cutting down branches