14. Having been bound, He came from Caiaphas
to Pilate,—is this too written? yes; And having bound Him,
they led Him away as a present to the king of Jarim Hosea x. 6: (R.V.) It also shall be
carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb. This
passage is applied in the same manner to Luke xxiii. 7 by Justin M. (Tryph. §
103), Tertullian (c. Marcion. iv. 42), and Rufinus
(de Symbolo, § 21), who adds,—“And rightly does
the Prophet add the name ‘Jarim,’ which means ‘a wild
vine,’ for Herod was…a wild vine, i.e. of an alien
stock.” For the various interpretations of the name see the
Commentaries on Hosea v. 13, and x. 6; Schrader, Cuneijorm
Inscriptions, II. § 439, Driver, Introduction to O.
T. Literature, p. 283.. But here some sharp hearer will
object, “Pilate was not a king,” (to leave for a while the
main parts of the question,) “how then having bound Him, led they
Him as a present to the king?” But read thou the Gospel;
When Pilate heard that He was of Galilee, he sent Him to
Herod Luke xxiii. 6, 7.; for Herod was then
king, and was present at Jerusalem. And now observe the exactness
of the Prophet; for he says, that He was sent as a present; for the
same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together, for before they
were at enmity Ibid. xxiii.
12.. For it
became Him who was on the eve of making peace between earth and heaven,
to make the very men who condemned Him the first to be at peace; for
the Lord Himself was there present, who reconciles Job xii. 24: (R.V.) He taketh away
the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth. The
rendering “who reconciles” (ὁ διαλλάσσων,
Sept.) is forbidden by the context. the hearts of the princes of the
earth. Mark the exactness of the Prophets, and their true
testimony.