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τὰς περιστεράς. 13. καὶ λέγει αὗτοῖς, ''Γέγραπται, ΄ Ὁ οἶκός µου
οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται"΄ ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ἐποιήσατε] ) σπήλαιον iJ 14. Καὶ προσῆλθον αὐτῷ τυφλοὶ καὶ χωλοὶ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ : 15. ᾿Ιδόντε δὲ οἱ ἀρχιερες καὶ οἱ
ληστῶν.” καὶ ἐθεράπευσεν αὐτούς.
γραμματεῖς τὰ θαυμάσια ἃ ἐποίησε, καὶ τοὺς παῖδας κράζοντας ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, καὶ λέγοντας, '΄ Ὡσαννὰ τῷ vid Δαβίδ, ἠγανάκτησαν, 16. καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ, ''᾿Ακούεις τί οὗτοι λέγουσιν ; λέγει αὐτοῖς, “Ναί: οὐδέποτε ἀνέγνωτε, ‘OT. ἐκ στόµατος νηπίων καὶ * θηλαζόντων κατηρτίσω αἶνον; ἐξῆλθεν έξω τῆς πόλεως εἰς Βηθανίαν, καὶ ηὐλίσθη ἐκεῖ.
1 πονειτε in ΝΒΙ. (Tisch., W.H.).
ohn xi. 38. Heb.xi.38. Rev. vi. 15.
k here in- trans. Lk. xi. a7 (with µασ- τούς). Ch. xxiv. 19. Mk. xiii. 17. Lk. Xxi. 23 (to suckle).
Ὁ δὲ ᾿Ιησοῦς
17. καὶ καταλιπὼν αὐτοὺς
Στονς after παιδας as well as before in NBDLN.
says: κολλυβισταί elow of wap’ ἡμῖν λεγόμενοι τραπεζῖται" κόλλυβος γὰρ εἶδός ἐστι νομίσματος εὐτελῆς, ὥσπερ ἔχομεν τυχὸν ἡμεῖς τοὺς ὀβολοὺς ἢ τὰ ἀργύρια (vide Hesychius and Suicer).— τὰς περιστεράς, doves, the poor man’s offering. The traffic was necessary, and might have been innocent; but the trading spirit soon develops abuses which were doubtless rampant at that period, making passover time a Jewish ‘“« Holy Fair,” a grotesque and offensive combination of religion with shady morality.—Ver. 13. γέγραπται, it stands written, in Isaiah lvi. 7; from the Sept. but with omission of πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, retained in Mk., and α peculiarly appropriate expression in the circum- stances, the abuse condemned having for its scene the court of the Gentiles.— σπήλαιον λῃστῶν, a den of robbers, a strong expression borrowed from another prophet (Jer. vii. 11), pointing probably to the avarice and fraud of the traders (τὸ γὰρ ΄ φιλοκερδὲς ληστρικὸν πάθος ἐστί, Theophy.), taking advantage of simple provincials. This act of Jesus has been justified by the supposed right of the zealot (Num. xxv. 6-13), which is an imaginary right: ‘‘ein unfindbar Artikel” (Holtz., H. C.), or by the re- forming energy befitting the Messiah (Meyer). It needed no other justifica- tion than the indignation of a noble soul at sight of shameless deeds. Jesus was the only person in Israel who could do such a thing. All others had become accustomed to the evil.
Vv. 14-17, peculiar to Mt.—Ver. 14. τυφλοὶ καὶ χωλοὶ: that the blind and lame in the city should seek out Jesus is perfectly credible, though reported only by Mt. They would hear of the recent
healing at Jericho, and of many other acts of healing, and desire to get a bene- fit for themselves, —Ver. 15. τὰ θαυμάσια: here only in N.T., the wonderful things, a comprehensive phrase apparently chosen to include all the notable things done by Jesus (Meyer), among which may be reckoned not only the cures, and the cleansing of the temple, but the en- thusiasm which He had awakened in the crowd, to the priests and scribes perhaps the most offensive feature of the situa- Ποπ.- τοὺς παῖδας, etc.: the boys and girls of the city, true to the spirit.of youth, caught up and echoed the cry of the pil- grim crowd and shouted in the temple pre- cincts: ‘‘Hosanna,etc.”. ἠγανάκτησαν, they were piqued, like the ten (xx. 24).— Ver. 16. Gxovets, etc.: the holy men at- tack the least objectionable phenomenon because they could do so safely ; not the enthusiasm of the crowd, the Messianic homage, the act of zeal, all deeply offen- sive to them, but the innocent shouts of children echoing the cry of seniors. They were forsooth unseemly in such a place! Hypocrites andcowards! No fault found with the desecration of the sacred pre- cincts by an unhallowed traffic.—vat, yes, of course: cheery, hearty, yea, not without enjoyment of the ridiculous dis- tress of the sanctimonious guardians of the temple.—ov8. ἀνέγνωτε as in xix. 4: felicitous citation from Ps. viii. 3, not to be prosaically interpreted as if children in arms three or four years old, still being suckled according to the custom of Hebrew mothers, were among the shout- ing juniors. These prompt happy cita- tions show how familiar Jesus was with the O. T.—Ver. 17. Βηθανίαν, Bethany, 15 stadia from Jerusalem (John xi. 18), rest- ing place of Jesus in the Passion week—