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Mat 27:10. Ἔδωκαν, they gave) In Zechariah it is ἔδωκα, I gave; and some[1177] have introduced it from the Prophet into the Evangelist, and Gebhardi clearly approves it on Zec 11:13. In this passage, however, it is written ἔδωκαν; and the force of ἔδωκα, and therefore the whole difference of the words of St Matthew from those of Zechariah, is supplied by the clause, “As the Lord enjoined me.”[1178] The LXX. have the same formula in Exo 9:12-καθὰ συνέταξε Κύριος τῷ Μωυσῇ, as the Lord enjoined Moses.[1179]-συνέταξε, enjoined) sc. to write or to say.
[1177] In his Apparatus Criticus, Bengel says, “ἔδωκαν) ἔδωκα, Aug. 4, duobus locis, Syr. Ex Zacharia. Probat Amama Antibarb., p. 573, et versu 9 construit, ἔλαβον ἀπὸ, κ.τ.λ. Sic quoque Io. Kaiserus et alii, quos notat Rus. T. 3, Harm. Ev., p. 1073, accepi a filiis Israel. ἔβαλον L. Ambigue. Vid. Gnom.”-(I. B.)
[1178] E. V. “As the Lord commanded me.”-(I. B.)
[1179] This is the reading of the Codex Alexandrinus: the Vatican MS. omits the two last words.-(I. B.)
Tisch. says that 3 MSS. and both Syr. Versions read ἔδωκα. But the cass of authority is for ἔδωκαν.-ED.