Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 21:5 - 21:5

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Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 21:5 - 21:5


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The daughter of Zion (tēi thugatri Siōn). Jerusalem as in Isa 22:4 (daughter of my people). So Babylon (Isa 47:1), daughter of Tyre for Tyre (Psa 45:12).

Riding (epibebēkōs). Perfect active participle of epibainō, “having gone upon.”

And upon a colt the foal of an ass (kai epi pōlon huion hupozugiou). These words give trouble if kai is here taken to mean “and.” Fritzsche argues that Jesus rode alternately upon each animal, a possible, but needless interpretation. In the Hebrew it means by common Hebrew parallelism “upon an ass, even upon a colt.” That is obviously the meaning here in Matthew. The use of hupozugiou (a beast of burden, under a yoke) for ass is common in the lxx and in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies p. 161).