Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 2:3

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 2:3 - 2:3

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 2:3 - 2:3

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3. ἐταράχθη. Herod, with the instincts of a tyrant, would be alarmed for his throne. His subjects (πᾶσα Ἱεροσόλυμα) had learnt to dread his outbreaks of passion. μετʼ αὐτοῦ not σὺν αὐτῷ, they did not sympathise in his alarm.

πᾶσα Ἱεροσόλυμα. The feminine form which occurs here and possibly ch. Mat 3:5, is remarkable. Elsewhere Ἱεροσόλυμα is a neuter plural. St Matthew uses this form in preference to Ἱερουσαλήμ, except in one passage, ch. Mat 23:37, where see note. St Luke, both in his Gospel and in the Acts and St Paul, each with few exceptions, adopt the Hebraic form in -ήμ. St John has the Greek termination only in his Gospel, the Hebrew only in the Apocalypse.

For a similar variety of gender in the name of a town, cp. Verg. Æn. VII. 682 altum Præneste, with Æn. VIII. 511 Præneste sub alta, and Thuc. II. 99 τόν τε Ἀνθεμοῦντα, with Dem. Phil. II. 20 Ἀνθεμοῦντα ἧς ἀντεποιοῦντο.