which the Jews would have tempted our Saviour to shew,—namely, the signal for revolt by openly declaring himself their king, and leading them against the Romans. The foreknowledge that this superstition would shortly hurry them into utter ruin caused the deep sigh,—as on another occasion, the bitter tears. Again, by the
of the Greeks their disputatious
is meant. The sophists pretended to teach wisdom as an art: and
sophistæ
may be literally rendered, wisdom-mongers, as we say, iron-mongers.
Ib. p. 350.