В¶ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Had we any doubt to whom these words refer, the Evangelists would at once remove it. Never surely was there ever a description more pointed, or one more circumstantially fulfilled. See Matthew 21:5, etc. and John 12:15, &c But taking the fact itself as a thing unquestioned, what I beg the Reader more immediately to notice in the passage is, the sweet and glorious features of character, by which this king was to be known; and then for the Reader to ask his own heart, whether he hath gone forth, and is going forth, to meet Christ with welcomes and hosannas, as the Jewish children did, when Christ thus entered triumphantly into Jerusalem? Is Christ your King? Do you know Him, as the Just One, and the Holy One? And is He all your salvation, and all your desire? 2 Samuel 23:5.