τὸ τί ποιήσωσιν, “the what to do”; the will to kill there, but the way dark (cf. Luke 1:62; Luke 22:24). ὁ λαὸς, the people, the common mass, with their inconvenient liking for a true, outspoken, brave, heroic man. ἐξεκρέμετο α., hung upon Him (hearing), an expressive phrase, and classical; examples in Wetstein and Pricaeus and in Loesner from Philo. From the Latins they cite:

Pendentque iterum narrantis ab ore. Virg., Aen., ver. 79.

Narrantis conjux pendet ab ore viri. Ovid., Her., 1, 30.

Pricaeus suggests that the metaphor is taken from iron and the magnet.

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