The Pulpit Commentary — Luke — Volume 2 — Section 135

the fittest of the proffered robee would be with reepect and attention to the Master, selected by the disciples" (Morri•on). looking npon him as a most able and power- Ver. 36.-And aa he went, they apread ful Rabbi, but refusing to entertain any of their olothea in the way. A common act of ~he gr_owing Meesianio conceptions respect- homage to & king or royal personage. So mg his peraon. Godet graphically paints in the case of J ehu, the officere of the army the scene in his suggestion that the worde, offered him this tribute (2 Kings ix. 13). "Rebuke thy dieciplee," were accompanier! So Agamemnon walked on costly carpets with an irritated e.nd anxinus look towarcle and tapestry when he entered hie pRlace at the frowning citadel of Antonia, where the Mycenm. Clytemneetra, in the• Agamem- Roman garrison of Jerusalem lay. It was non' of JEschylue, says- there iu full view of Jesus e.nd the crowds. " Bot, my loved lord, The anxious look seemed to say that the Leave now that car; nor on the bare ground Romans were on the watch for any si::rne or set disaffection on the part of the hated and That royal foot, beneath whose mighty trend enepectcd Jews. The answer of Jesus, 'fray trembled, Haste, ye virgins, to whose continues the ea.me writer, hae a. terrible care ma.jeety. "If I could silence all these," Thie pleasing office is entrusted, spread looking round on the impassioned faces of The streets with tapestry; Jet the ground the multitude as they waved their palm he covered branches in homage to their King, " the With richest purple, leading to the palace, very stones on the ground would cry aloud." 'l'hat honour with just state may grace his Thie striking imagery was a memory of onr entry." Lord of the prophecy of Habakkak: "The (905-911.) etone shall cry out of tbe wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it" Ver. 37.-At the descent of the mount of (ii. 11). Olivee, the whole multitude of the disciples Ver. H.-B:e beheld the city. It was a began to rejoioe and praise God with e. loud very different view to what the traveller of voioe for all the mighty works that they had the present day would see from the same seen. At this point on the Bethany road spot. Though Jerusalem, when Jesus the citv of Jerusalem comes into view. Chriet was teaching on earth, was subject Here a ·crowd of pilgrims to the PssAover to the stranger Herodian, and the Herodian Fee.et, many of whom were well acquainted to the great Italian power, yet the beauty with Jesus, ea.me out to meet and welcome and glory of the city were remarkable. Still him with their branches of palm. These glittered in the midst of thll great city thnt joined his friends who e.ccompa.nied him "mass of gold and snow " 1,.-uown as the from Bethany. 'fhis cnthnsiAem was ex- temple. The far-extending suburbs were cited among the Possov·er pilgrime in great covered with the gardens and palaces of measure owing to the report which by this the wealthy Jews. Bot the mi,:hty memo- time had got e.broad of the rRisiog of Laza- ries which hung so thickly round the sacred rus (see John xii. 17, 18). Many bad city and the glorious house of God after nil already gone out from the city to Bethany constituted its chief charm. What might to see Jesus and L~za.rus. Of the Messianic not that city have been I what splendid aa,1 ehoute of welcome which sounded in the far-reaching work might it not have done! orowd, St. Luke does not mention the " Ho- and now the oup of its iniquities wus just sanna. I " of St. Matthew, no doubt because brimming over; only a few more short years, this peculiar Hebrew cry would not have e.nd e. silence the most awful wouhl brood C().1 veyed any meaning to the Gentile readers over the shapeless ruins of ,,hnt was once to whom his story was especially addrnssed. Jerusalem and her house on Ztou, the joy 'fhe two incidents which follow-the crying of thtJ whole earth. And wept over it. Nu out of the etonee, &nd the weeping of the merely silent teare of mute sorrow, but Master over his beautiful doomed city (vers. f,cll.auo-ev, he wept aloud. All the insults 39-44)-occur only in St. Luke. His source e.nd the sufferings of the Passion were of informe.tiou here was evidently quite powerless to elicit from the Man of sorrows different to the other two synoptists or the.t expression of intense grief which the St. John. thought of the ruin of the loved city called Vera. 39, 40.-.lnd some of the Pharisees forth. from among the multitude said unto him, Var. 42.-If thou hadst Jmo,;,;-n, even thou, Master, rebuke thy disci plea. And he an- nt lea.st in this thy day. '!'he emphatic swered and said unto them, I tell you that, repetition of the "thou," and tho broken if these should hold thelr peaoe, the stones form of the sentence, tell of the intense feel- would immediately ory out. These Phari- ing of the Divine Speaker. "In this thy sees were probably some of that gree.t and day." There was still time, still one day intluentiiu scot who had all iuong listened lert, before hill terrible trial-time began,  140 THE C'-.-OSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE. ten. xtx. 1-48.