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Mat_9:23. The use of the lugubrious strains of flutes (and horns), such as accompanied the funerals of the Jews (Lightfoot on this passage; Geier, de luctu Hebr. v. § 16; Grundt, die Trauergebräuche d. Hebr. 1868), was known also among Greeks and Romans.
ὄχλον ] consisting partly of the women hired to mourn, partly of the friends and relations of the president.
θορυβούμ .] did not require an article, as being a mere qualifying attribute. Therefore θορυβ . is not, with Fritzsche, Ewald, to be referred to ἰδών .