The treasury] According to the Talmud there were in the Court of the Women thirteen chests for offerings called 'Trumpets,' from which three times in the year, before the three chief feasts, the money was transferred to the treasury called Corbanas. Each was marked with the object to which the offerings it received were to be devoted, e.g. temple expenses, sacrifices, oil, wine, incense, sacred vessels, etc. Cp. John 8:20. Money] bit. 'brass.' Perhaps small copper coins, such as the as and quadrans, are meant (Matthew 5:26; Matthew 10:29).

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