Of a truth.... — Many of the better MSS. add the words “in this city.”
Against thy holy child Jesus. — Better, as before, Servant. (See Notes on Acts 3:13) The word is the same as that used of David in Acts 4:25.
Both Herod, and Pontius Pilate. — The narrative of Herod’s share in the proceedings connected with the Passion is, it will be remembered, found only in Luke 23:8-12. So far as the hymn here recorded may be considered as an independent evidence, the two present an undesigned coincidence.
With the Gentiles, and the people of Israel. — Even here the nouns are, in the Greek, without an article. The “peoples” (the Greek noun is plural) are rightly defined, looking to the use of the Hebrew word, as those of Israel.