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Mat 27:33. Κρανίου, of a skull) The hill was called so from its shape.[1193]
[1193] Not, as I am inclined to think, from the skulls of malefactors punished with death, which lay about there; for Golgotha, in the singular, means a skull, sc. the place of a skull.-B. H. E.
From all quarters in the circuit of the cross the whole world might behold the Son of God suspended thereon.-Harm., p. 562.