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Mat 27:27. Ὅλην τὴν σπεῖραν, the whole band) sc. even those soldiers who ought not then to have been present, and had not been so previously.[1191]-ΣΠΕῖΡΑΝ, band, Lat. spiram) Elsewhere the Greeks are wont to put a simple for the Latin i before a consonant, as in Πιλάτος, not ΠΕΙΛΆΤΟς, etc.; they wrote, however, ΣΠΕῖΡΑ, because it is thus nearest to ΠΕῖΡΑ, an attempt; σπεῖρω, to sow, etc.; to the sound of which they were accustomed.
[1191] Hereby the delivery of the Saviour into the hands of the sinful heathen was consummated.-B. H. E., p. 220.
Bengel here alludes to our Lord’s words in Mat 20:19; Mat 26:45.-(I. B.)