ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ. Cp. Joseph. B. J. II. 13. 4.

ἐν τοῖς ταμείοις. Here probably ‘the lecture rooms’ of the synagogue, so that the meaning of the verse would be, ‘whether the false Christ come like John the Baptist in the desert, or like a great Rabbi in the schools of the synagogue, be not deceived.’

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