[1] The manuscripts of Egeria give the word specula which means height or plateau. Some have proposed instead of specula the variation spelunca, in particular, in our days, Pixner. Kopp has criticized this interpretation. The word ascending is never used when referring to a grotto while it is always used in reference to a height. Also, the sermon would then be called the sermon of the grotto and not of the mount.
[2] Clemens Kopp, "Die Heiligen Stratten der Evangelien", Regensburg, 1959, pg. 265 and following.
[3] Mt. 28,10 “go and announce to my brothers to go into Galilee, there they will see me”.
[4] Etaxato,etaxato, Aoristo medium of tatto, tattw,to command.
[5] Bargil Pixner, “With Jesus in Jerusalem”, pg. 167
[6] I Cor. 15,6.
[7] Isidro Goma Civit, "El Evangelio segun San Mateo", vol. II, pg. 197