by the side of the young Church, which has become the true bearer of the Divinity of Christ” (Lange). No king had ever thus come to Jerusalem; such a circumstance was predicted of Messiah alone, and Christ alone fulfilled it to the letter, showing of what nature his kingdom was. Ver. 6.—As Jesus commanded them. They simply obeyed the order, not yet knowing what it portended, or how it carried out the will of God declared by his prophets. Ver. 7.—Brought the ass. The unbroken foal would be more easily