ἔθρεψαν. אBL, La[389] Ti[390] ἐξέθρεψαν D, ἐθήλασαν Rec[391]

[389] La. Lachmann.
[390] Ti. Tischendorf.
[391] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

29. μακάριαι αἱ στεῖραι. Comp. Luke 11:27; Hosea 9:12-16. The words received their most painful illustration in the incident of the Siege, which had long been foretold in prophecy (Deuteronomy 28:53-57; Jeremiah 19:9), that women were driven even to kill and eat their own children: Jos. B. J. Luke 23:10, VI. 3. The ‘Blessed’ shewed an awful reversal of the proper blessedness of motherhood.

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