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36. τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν. As well as leaves of trees and branches of the palms, which they tore off and kept strewing as they went along (Mat 21:8), as in the reception of Mordecai (Targum on Est 10:1) and of the Maccabees (2Ma 10:7). The very same mode of shewing honour was adopted when Mr Farran, the consul at Damascus, visited Jerusalem in 1834, at a time of great distress.