Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria
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As Helms notes in subsequent comments:
However, the important location is the Mount of Olives; typology, not history, is at work: here. The typological fiction continues on the basis of Zech. 9:9 LXX: Rejoice greatly, 0 daughter of Sion; proclaim it aloud, 0 daughter of Jerusalem; behold, the king is coming to thee, just. and a Saviour [sōzōn] "saving,; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal [pōlon neon a "new (unridden) foal"]. [...] Matthew wants so much for Jesus to fulfll Zech. 9:9 (as the evangelist understands the verse) that he invents a second donkey: "You will at once find a donkey tethered with her foal beside her, untie them, and bring them to me. . . . the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed, and brought the donkey and her foal; they laid their cloaks on them and Jesus mounted . (Matt. 21:2, 6- 7)
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