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γ ee ani. yevedy ταύτην. 37. Ἱερουσαλήμ, Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἡ ἀποκτείνουσα τοὺς
xiii. 27. Lk. xiii.34;
προφήτας καὶ λιθοβολοῦσα τοὺς ἀπεσταλμένους πρὸς αὐτήν, ποσάκις
ss. : 3 σι os BS , a , a Mk ἠθέλησα 7 ἐπισυναγαγεῖν τὰ τέκνα σου, "ὃν τρόπον ἐπισυνάγει
xii. I; xvii. 37. z same phrase in Lk. xiii. 34. Acts, , op i. τα; vii. OvOMaTL Κυρίου. 28. 2 Tim. iii.8. a here and in Lk. xiii. 34. ix. 9; xii. 14.
b here in N. T. (Ρε, Ixxxiv. 3).
“*Spust τὰ > νοσσία ἑαυτῆς Σ ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας, καὶ οὐκ ἠθελήσατε ; _ 38. Bod, ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν ἔρημος 3: 39. λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν, Od py µε ἴδητε ἀπ᾿ ἄρτι, ἕως ἂν εἴπητε, Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν
ς Lk. xiii. 34. Rev. iv. 8;
? ορνις before επισυναγει in SBDL 1, 33, 69 al.
2 αυτης in NDA 33 (Tisch.). αντης, but within brackets).
5 BL omit ερηµος, found in very many uncials (ΝΟΡΔΣ al.) and versions.
B has neither avrys nor εαντης (W.H. have
The
omission might be an assimilation to Lk. (xiii. 35), where the word is wanting in
many of the best MSS., but it is more likely to be an explanatory gloss.
below.
hoc dicitur uno hoc versu magna vi,” Bengel.—aré τ. ἆ., etc., from the blood of Abel, the first martyr, mentioned in the first book of the Hebrew Bible, to the blood of Zechariah, the prophet named in the last book (2 Chron. xxiv. 20-22).—viot Βαραχίον, the designation of the last but one of the minor prophets, applied here to the other Zechariah, by inadvertence either of the evangelist or of an early copyist.—év ἐφονεύσατε, whom ye (through your spiritual ances- tors) slew; fact as stated in 2 Chron. xxiv. 21.—Ver. 36. ἁμὴν: solemn intro- duction of a statement terrible to think of: sins of countless generations accum- ulating for ages, and punished in a final representative generation ; true, however terrible.
Vv. 37-39. Apostrophe to the Holy City (Lk. xiii. 34) —Etra πρὸς τὴν πόλιν ἀποστρέφει τὸν λόγον. Chrys., H. Ixxiv. —Ver. 37. “Ἱερουσαλήμ, the Hebrew form of the name, exceptional in Mt., very appropriate to the solemn situation. Twice spoken; why? ‘It is the fashion of one pitying, bewailing, and greatly loving,” 0Ἠτγς. ---ἀποκτείνουσα, λιθο- βολοῦσα: present participles, denoting habit and repute, now and always be- having so—killing, stoning.—mpos αὐτήν, to her, not to thee, because the participles are in the nominative, while “Ἱερουσαλήμ is vocative: ‘‘exemplum compellationis per vocativum ad quam deinceps non amplius spectatur”’ (Fritzsche). Grotius regards the transition from second to third person as an _ Orientalism.— ποσάκις, how often; on this word has been based the inference of frequent
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visits to Jerusalem not mentioned in the Synoptics. But the allusion may be to the whole history of Israel (so Orig., Hil., Jer.,) and to the whole people, as the children of the metropolis, the Speaker still continuing to speak in the name of God, as in ver. 34, and including Himself among God’s agents.—épvis, a bird or fowl; after Plato, a hen; so here, the emblem of anxious love. θερμὸν τὸ ζῶον περὶ τὰ ἔκγονα, Chrys. She gathers her chickens under her wings for protection against impending danger. This Jesus and all the prophets desired to do; a truth to be set over against the statement in vv. 34-35, which seems to suggest that God’s aim was Israel’s damnation.—ra νοσσία (Attic, νεοσσία: form disapproved by Phryn., p. 206), her brood of young birds. Cf. Ps. lxxxiv. 4, where, as here, a pathetic use is made of the emblem.—ovx ἠθελήσατε, ye would not, though I would (ἠθέλησα). Μαπ consent necessary.—Ver. 38. ἰδοὺ, etc., solemn, sorrowful abandon- ment of the city to its fate.—dadterar ὑμῖν, spoken to the inhabitants of Israel.—6 οἶκος ὑ., your house, 2.ε., the city, not the temple; the people are conceived of as one family.—é€pypos, wanting in BL, and omitted by W.H., is not necessary to the sense. The sentence is, indeed, more impressive without it: ‘Behold your house is abandoned to your care: those who would have saved you giving up further effort”. What will happen left to be imagined ; just what ἔρημος expresses— desolation.—Ver. 39. am ἄρτι, from this moment, Christ’s prophetic work