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Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching
St Irenaeus of Lyons, tr. Robinson, 1920
Chapter 65
And the manner of His entry into Jerusalem, which was the capital of Judaea, where also was His royal seat and the temple of God, the prophet Isaiah declares: Say ye to the daughter of Sion,1 Behold a king cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass,2 a colt the foal of an ass. For, sitting on an ass’s colt, so He entered into Jerusalem, the multitudes strewing and putting down for Him their garments. And by the daughter of Sion he means Jerusalem.
Notes
- Matt. xxi. 5 (Isa. lxii. 11; Zech. ix. 9).
- Matt. xxi. 5 (Isa. lxii. II; Zech. ix. 9). The passage is quoted in the Matthaean form, and ascribed to Isaiah from whom the first words come. In St Matthew’s Gospel it is ascribed to “the prophet,” though some codices insert “Zachariah.” Justin quotes it differently, Ap. I, 35, Dial. 53.