The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

to understand, that the whole city should, although
on different grounds, have shared the * trouble' of
the king. It was certainly not, as some have
suggested, from apprehension of * the woes *
which, according to popular notions, were to
accompany the Advent of Messiah. Throughout the
history of Christ the absence of such * woes' was
never made a ground of objection to
' This is the correct rendering, and not, as in A.V.,
* iii the East/ the latter being expressed by the
plural of &raroA^, in V. 1, while in vv. 2 and 9 the
word is used in the singular.
' SoMeiumer has abundantly proved that the word
iurHip, though primarily meaning a star, is also
used of constellations, meteors, and comets—in
short, has the widest application: * omne
designare, quod aliquem splendorem habet et emittit'
(Lex. in N.T., t. i. pp. 390, 391).
• Not,a8in the A.V., •to worship,' which at this
stage of the history would seem