Treasury
(Mark 12:41; Luke 21:1) a name given by the rabbins to thirteen chests in the temple, called trumpets from their shape. They stood in the court of the women. It would seem probable that this court was sometimes itself called “the treasury” because it contained these repositories.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Treasury
The word yofo^u- \iiaov, tr. ' treasury ' in the NT, is used in the LXX for the Heb. woids* meaning cells or apartments of the tenijde court, in whicii sacred ollcrings and utensils were kept, and in which also the jn icsts dwelt.t The word is used in the Hooks of jSIac- cabees of the sacred treasury in whicli not only public treasures were stored, but also public records,* as well as property belonging to widows and orphans.§ In the inner court of Herod's temple there were rooms which JosephusH repre- sents by 7aj'o0i;XdKia, showing that llie term had a wider sense than 'treasury' would suggest. In the NT the word is used in three places, viz. Mk 12^'""||Lk21', Jn8-'». Josephus has it in the singular.ll apparently for the special room in tlie women's court in which golil and silver bullion were preserved. In Jn 8™ this sense would stand, but not so in the parallel passages of Mark and Luke, where the word is a|i- parently the equivalent of the Ralibinical m-i;ic, ' trumpets,' so called because they had the shape of the rain's-horn trumpet. There were thirteen such boxes, and they ma…
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