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34. Ἱερουσαλὴμ Ἱερουσαλήμ. The words were perhaps spoken again in the Great Denunciation of the Tuesday in Passion Week, Mat 23:37. It is noticeable that the form Ἱερουσαλήμ is always used by St Luke (26 times) except in 3 places. The other Synoptists always use Ἱεροσόλυμα except in Mat 23:37. No certain conclusion can be built on this, for St Paul uses both forms in the same Epistle (Gal 1:17; Gal 4:25).
ἡ ἀποκτείνουσα τοὺς προφήτας. “It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers” (Isa 1:21). See Luk 11:47, Luk 20:14; Mat 23:34; 2Es 1:32, “I sent unto you my servants the prophets whom ye have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, saith the Lord.”
ποσάκις. This, like other passages in the Synoptists, implies more frequent visits to Jerusalem than they actually record.
δν τρόπον ὄρνις τὴν ἑαυτῆς νοσσιὰν ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας (ἐπισυνάγει). A metaphor still more tender and appealing than that of the eagle which “stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings” of Deu 32:11-12.
οὐκ ἠθελήσατε. ‘Ye willed it not’ though ‘I willed it.’ The words indicate “the sad privilege which man possesses of resisting the most serious influences of grace.”