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25. Οἱ οὖν ν Gen. xliii 14.
z Mk. xv. 38. a Exod. XXviii. 28.
24. εἶπον οὖν πρὸς ἀλλήλους, “ Μὴ σχίσωµεν αὐτὸν, ἀλλὰ "λάχωμεν b xxi. 11.
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De Cruce, Antwerp, 1595; Amstel., 1670; and in vol. ii. of his collected works, published at Lugduni, 1613. With Jesus were crucified “' other two,” in Mt. xxvii. 38, called “robbers,” probably of the same class as Barabbas. Jesus was crucified between them; possibly, to identify Him with the worst criminals. “The whole of humanity was repre- sented there: the sinless Saviour, the saved penitent, the condemned impeni- tent.” Plummer.—Ver. 19. Έγραψε δὲ καὶ τίτλον 6 Πιλάτος. “'Απά Pilate wrote a ‘title,’ also, and set it on the cross.” The “‘title,” αἰτία, was a board whitened with gypsum (σανίς, λεύκωμα) such as were commonly used for public notices. Pilate himself, meaning to insult the Jews, ordered the precise terms of the inscription. καὶ τίτλον, ‘a title also,’’ in addition to all the other insults he had heaped on them during the trial—Ver. 20. This title was read by “many of the Jews,” because the place of crucifixion was close to the city, and lay in the road of any coming in from the north; also it was written in three languages so thate every one could read it, whether Jew or Gentile.——Ver. 21. Naturally the chief priests remonstrated and begged Pilate so to alter the inscription as to remove the impression that the claim of Jesus was admitted.— Ver. 22. But Pilate, “by nature obstinate and stubborn”’ (Philo, di. 589), peremptorily refused to make
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c Here only in this sense, see Thayer.
d Ps. xxii. 18.
any alteration. 6 γέγραφα yéypada.— Ver. 23. ‘*The soldiers, then, when they had crucified Jesus, took His gar- ments’’—the executioner’s perquisite (Apuleius has the comparison ‘“ naked as a new-born babe or as the cruci- fied ”)—and as there were four soldiers, τετράδιον, Acts xii. 4, they divided the clothes into four parts. This was the more easily done because the usual dress of a Jew consisted of five parts, the head- dress, the shoes, the ο ο, the outer garment, and the girdle. The χιτών remained after the four other articles were distributed. They could not divide it into four without spoiling it, and so they cast lots for it. It was seamless, ἄρραφος, unsewed, and woven in one piece from top to bottom.—Ver. 24. ‘Lhe soldiers therefore said, My σχίσωµεν αὐτόν ἀλλὰ λάχωμεν, “let us not rend it but cast lots”. λαγχάνειν is, properly, not ‘‘to cast lots,’ but ‘to obtain by lot”. See Field, Otiuwm Norv., 72. In this John sees a fulfilment of Ps. xxii. 18, the LXX. version of which is here quoted verbatim.—Ver. 25. This nart of the scene is closed (that another may be introduced) with the commcn formula, οἱ μὲν οὖν στρατιῶται ταῦτα ἐποίησαν. (‘‘Graeci . . . saepissime hujusmodi_ conclusiunculis utuntur.”’ Raphel in loc.) οἱ μὲν . . . eioryKeroay δὲ... The soldiers for their part acted as has been related, but there were others beside the cross who were very differently