ACC ~ Mark 11 v2b

WHY A COLT?

JUSTIN MARTYR: It was foretold expressly that he would sit upon the foal of an ass and enter Jerusalem. [1] FIRST APOLOGY 35. [2]

[1] Zech 9:9.

[2] TLG 0645.001, 35.10.1-3; ANF 1:175.

ZECHARIAH’S PROPHESY FULFILLED

BEDE: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your king will come to you, gentle, and sitting upon a donkey, and its foal, the offspring of a beast of burden.” [1] The daughter of Zion is the church of the faithful, a figure of the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the mother of us all, of which there then existed a sizeable group among the people of Israel. [2] They had a king who was gentle, for it was not God’s pleasure to give an earthly kingdom to the powerful, but a heavenly kingdom to the gentle. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPELS 2.3. [3]

[1] Zech 9:9; cf. Is 62:11; Mt 21:5.

[2] The gathered ekklēsia in Jerusalem of the first century. Cf. Jn 11:45.

[3] Cetedoc 1367, 2.3.89; HOG 2:26-27*.