Mat 22:7. Ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς, but when the king heard thereof) The transgression of the disobedient was a crying sin.-τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν, their city) sc. that of the murderers.-στρατεύματα, armies) sc. the Roman forces.[955]-ΦΟΝΕῖς, murderers) The chief crime provokes the whole punishment; see Amos 2.-αὐτῶν, of them) viz. of those murderers and despisers.
[955] Who were let loose upon Jerusalem forty years from this time.-V. g.