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Sacred things (ta hiera).
Of the temple (tou hierou). Play on the same word hierou (sacred). See Num 18:8-20 for the details. This is a very pertinent illustration.
They which wait upon the altar (hoi tōi thusiastēriōi paredreuontes). Old word paredreuō, to sit beside, from paṙ̇edros, like Latin assidere, and so constant attendance. Only here in the N.T. Locative case thusiastēriōi, late word found so far only in lxx, Philo, Josephus, N.T., and ecclesiastical writers. See Mat 5:23.