. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. ou, Why doye loose himfthus shall yesay unto theLord hathneed of him. 32. And they that were sent wenttheir way, and found even as he hadsaid unto them. 33. And as they were loosing thecolt, the owners thereof said unto loose ye the colt? HOLY WEEK 34. At illi dixerunt : Quia Dominuseum necessarium habet, 35. Et duxerunt ilium ad Jesum, etjactantes vestimenta sua supra pullum,imposuerunt jesum. To indicate BcthphageI he Latin text of SaintMatthew uses the ivordcastellu
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. ou, Why doye loose himfthus shall yesay unto theLord hathneed of him. 32. And they that were sent wenttheir way, and found even as he hadsaid unto them. 33. And as they were loosing thecolt, the owners thereof said unto loose ye the colt? HOLY WEEK 34. At illi dixerunt : Quia Dominuseum necessarium habet, 35. Et duxerunt ilium ad Jesum, etjactantes vestimenta sua supra pullum,imposuerunt jesum. To indicate BcthphageI he Latin text of SaintMatthew uses the ivordcastellum, which zconlJimply a village with itscastle or tozcer of de-fence. In fact, the sanct-uary of Beth phage,which has noic been iden-tified as marking the spotZihere Jesus mounted thecolt, is situated at thebase of a mount, thesummit of which is cover-ed with very numerousfragments of pottery, acharacteristic peculia-rity of sites formerlyinhabited. Moreover, thisloft vspot above Bethany,from which can be seenthe declivities slopingilown to the Dead Sea,-with the valley leading toHerodium and to Beth-. b The Proceisiuti ihc Af^usll lehem, with all the districts on the south oj Je-rusalem,must, invirtue of its remarkable posi-tion, have constituted an important strategicpoint. It must, in fact, have heen a strongholdof war; hence the choice of the name r;/castel-luin to designate the village of Bet h phage. We are completely in the dark as towhich disciples were cfiosen to go andJetchthe ass and her foal to Belhphage: all mannerof conjectures have been ha;arded. but notone with any foundation in fact. Allwe knowis that the Masters instructions with regardto them were very precise; He was anxiousto spare His messengers all difficulty, andtola them what they were to ansicer in thevery probable event of the owner of the two 34. And they said, The Lord hathneed of him. 35. And they brought him to jesus :and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set jesusthereon. animal
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