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Mat 20:18. Ἀρχιερεῦσι, to the chief priests) This appellation seems to have been very common at that time.-γραμματεῦσι, to the scribes) whose duty it was to examine, as of the priests to decide.[885]
[885] Bengel’s very sentences have a rhythm, which brings out happily the antithesis intended: “Scribis) quorum erat scientia; uti pontificum sententia.” The province of the former was knowledge of the written law; of the latter, to decide or give sentence in accordance with it.-ED.