Matthew 27:33-44
Golgotha <1115> [Golgotha.]
offered <1325> [gave.]
<3690> [vinegar.]
Mark says wine mingled with myrrh; but as the sour wine used by the Roman soldiers and common people was termed [oinos <\\See definition 3631\\>] wine, and [oxos <\\See definition 3690\\>] vinegar, [vin aigre, French,] is sour wine; and as [chole <\\See definition 5521\\>] gall, is applied to bitters of any kind, it is not difficult to reconcile the two accounts.
When ... had crucified <4717> [they crucified.]
they divided <1266> [parted.]
his ...... charge ... him <846 156> [his accusation.]
defamed <987> [reviled.]
saying <3004> [saying.]
can destroy <2647> [that destroyest.]
If <1487> [If.]
come down <2597> [come.]
He saved ...... save <4982> [saved.]
king <935> [the King.]
He trusts <3982> [trusted.]
I am <1510> [I am.]
Luke 23:27-33
women ..... and <1161 2532 1135> [and of.]
Daughters <2364> [daughters.]
days <2250> [the days.]
Our Lord here refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the final desolation of the Jewish state; an evil associated with so many miseries, that sterility, which had otherwise been considered an opprobrium, was accounted a circumstance most felicitous. No history can furnish us with a parallel to the calamities and miseries of the Jews; rapine and murder, famine and pestilence, within; fire and sword, and all the terrors of war, without. Our Saviour himself wept at the foresight of these calamities; and it is almost impossible for persons of any humanity to read the relation of them in Josephus without weeping also. He might justly affirm, "if the misfortunes of all, from the beginning of the world, were compared with those of the Jews, they would appear much inferior in the comparison."
Blessed <3107> [Blessed.]
when <3753> [when.]
Skull <2898> [Calvary. or, the place of a skull. they crucified.]
