VERS. VIII.
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Strowed branches in the way.
NOT that they strowed garments and boughs just in the way under the feet of the ass, to be trod on, (this perhaps might have thrown down the rider) but by the way side they made little tents and tabernacles of clothes and boughs, according to the custom of the feast of Tabernacles. John also adds, that taking branches of palm trees (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) in their hands they went forth to meet him. That book of Mai∣monides intituled 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Tabernacles and Palm branches will be an excellent com∣ment on this place, and so will the Talmudic treatise, Succah. We will pick out these few things not unsuitable to the present story. s 1.1 Doth any one spread his garment on his tabernacle against the heat of the sun? &c. it is absurd; but if he spread his garment for comeliness and ornament, it is approved. Again, t 1.2 The boughs of Palm trees, of which the Law speaks, u are the young growing sprouts of Palms, before their leaves shoot out on all sides, but when they are like small staves; and these are called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 And a little after, It is a notable precept, to gather 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 young branches of Palms, and the boughs of myrtle, and willow, and to make them up into a small bundle, and to carry them in their hands, &c.