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Mat 21:12. Ἐξέβαλε, cast out)[916] though He was meek, and had been just called so in Mat 21:5. In the early part of His ministry, our Lord had purified the temple; see Joh 2:14. Those who profaned it had, however, returned; and now, when near the end of His course, He purifies it once more, though it was soon to be destroyed; see ch. Mat 23:38.-πάντας, all) A great miracle. Even a large body of soldiers would not have ventured to attempt it.-τοὺς πωλοῦντας, κ.τ.λ., those who sold, etc.) They had wished to offer every accommodation for public worship, especially at the time of the Passover; but by degrees they appear to have pushed their licence further.-ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ,[917] in the temple) and indeed in its uttermost part, the court of the Gentiles; where the Gentiles [or nations] were wont to pray. See Mar 11:17.
[916] This casting out did not occur on that very day, a day so full of grace and joy; but when men refused to obey the intimation conveyed by His eyes and look (of which Mark, ch. Mat 11:11, makes mention: [in the ‘eventide’ of the same day “Jesus entered the temple, and looked round about upon all things,” and not until the morrow He “began to cast out them that sold.”-ED.]), the Lord on the following day exhibited more severe specimens of His most just indignation. Comp. with this, Mar 11:15.-Harm., p. 447.
[917] The fuller reading, ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ, which the larger Ed. had pronounced to be an inferior reading, is regarded as almost equal in authority to that of the text by the margin of the Ed. 2 and the Germ. Vers.-E. B.
There is no primary authority for the fuller reading here. Εἰς τὸ ἱερόν, omitting Θεοῦ in the beginning of the sentence, is read by Lachm., with BLb Orig. Hilar. 713, Memph. and Theb. Versions. Dac Vulg. and Rec. Text add τοῦ Θεοῦ.-ED.