My house is the house of prayer Isaiah 56:7. See on Luke 1:10; Luke 18:10.

a den of thieves Rather, a brigands" cave. Our Lord had seen many of these brigands" caves on the steep rocky sides of the Wady Hamam and elsewhere. Comp. Jeremiah 7:11, "Is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes?" It became still more a murderers" cave when the sicariimade its pavement swim with blood (Jos. B. J.iv. 3, §§ 7, 10).

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