[3] Comp. Fritzsche and De Wette, in loc. Matth. [↑]

[4] Tertull. Apologet. c. xxi.; Orig. c. Cels. ii. 33, 59. [↑]

[5] Euseb. can. chron. ad. Ol. 202, Anm. 4; comp. Paulus, s. 765 ff. [↑]

[6] Serv. ad Virgil. Georg. i. 465 ff.: Constat, occiso Cæsare in Senatu pridie Idus Martias, solis fuisse defectum ab hora sexta usque ad noctem. [↑]

[7] Echa R. iii. 28. [↑]

[8] R. Bechai Cod. Hakkema: Cum insignis Rabbinus fato concederet, dixit quidam: iste dies gravis est Israëli, ut cum sol occidit ipso meridie. [↑]

[9] Succa, f. xxix. 1: Dixerunt doctores: quatuor de causis sol deficit: prima, ob patrem domus judicii mortuum, cui exequiæ non fiunt ut decet, etc. [↑]

[10] Vid. Fritzsche, in loc.; comp. also De Wette, exeg. Handb. 1, 1, s. 238; Theile, zur Biogr. Jesu, § 36. [↑]

[11] Hieron. ad Hedib. ep. cxlix. 8 (comp. his Comm. in loc.): In evangelio autem, quod hebraicis literis scriptum est, legimus, non velum templi scissum, sed superliminare templi miræ magnitudinis corruisse. [↑]

[12] The possibility of this is admitted by Neander also, but with the presupposition of some fact as a groundwork (s. 640 f.). [↑]