Matthew 4:5

ἔστησεν for ἵστησιν with the four oldest uncials and the cursives 1, 33, 209. The reading of the textus receptus may be due to the present, παραλαμβάνει.

5. ἁγίαν πόλιν. This designation used of the actual Jerusalem by St Matthew alone is transferred to the heavenly Jerusalem, Revelation 11:2; Revelation 21:2; Revelation 22:19.

τὸ πτερύγιον. Not as in A.V. ‘a pinnacle,’ but either (1) ‘the pinnacle,’ or winglike projection (πτερύγιον = ‘a little wing’), i.e. some well-known pinnacle of the Temple, probably on one of the lofty porticoes overlooking the deep Valley of Kidron or Hinnom; or (2) ‘the roof’ of the Temple or one of the porticoes—a sense which πτε ρὸν bears in the classics; cp. Scholiast on Aristoph. Aves 1110. διὰ τὰ ἐν τοῖς ναοῖς�—τὰς γὰρ τῶν ἱερῶν στέγας πτερὰ καὶ�. πτερύγιον itself does not appear to be classical in this sense. Eus. H. E. II. 23 names in the same definite way τὸ πτερ. τοῦ ἱεροῦ.