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Let us not rend it (mē schisōmen auton). Mē with first aorist active volitive subjunctive of schizō, to split. It was too valuable to ruin.
Cast lots (lachōmen). Second aorist active volitive subjunctive of lagchanō. The usual meaning is to obtain by lot (Luk 1:9; Act 1:17). Field (Ot. Norv. 72) holds that no example has been found where it means “cast lots” as here, but Thayer cites Isocrates, p. 144b and Diod. 4, 63. John here quotes with the usual formula Psa 22:18 (lxx verbatim) and finds a fulfilment here. The enemies of the Lord’s Anointed treated him as already dead (Westcott) and so cast lots (elabon klēron, the common phrase as in Mat 27:35).