Ver. WI-13.—"0 rz yap ayicZanv xd of cyreCbmevor 2E Evdg archvrece OF fy airiay bm erasoxiverces BOEADods adbrods narel, Aéyovr Amayyeaw rd Svomce cov ois aDEAOIE pou, ev meow ExxAnolas Imvqow of. Kal wddw “Eya eoowen werodas ex celrgr nad adds "Idod eyw nal r& rosin a wor cOwner 6 Osés.
There is no variety in the reading of these words in any copies, nor do trans-
lators differ in rendering the sense of them. The Syriac renders the last testi- mony as if the words were spoken unto God, “Behold I and the children 727727
VER. 11-13. | EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 4i1
NTDN "> whom thou hast given unto me, O God.” The Ethiopic, “ Where- fore they who sanctify and they who are sanctified are altogether ;” to what pur- pose I cannot guess.
‘Ayia@€o is used in this epistle both in the legal sense of it, “to separate,” “ conse- erate,” “dedicate ;” and in the evangelical, “to purify,” “sanctify,” to make inter- nally and really holy. It seems in this place to be used in the latter sense, though it includes the former also, «az a&xoarovdnaw, “by just consequence,” for they who are sanctified are separated unto God. The word, then, expresseth what the Lord Christ doth unto and for the sons as he is the captain of their salvation. He consecrates them unto God, through the sanctification of the Spirit, and washing in his own blood.
“ES éves. It may be of the masculine gender, and so denote one person; or of the neuter, and so one thing, one mass, one common principle; whereof afterwards.
The first testimony is taken from Ps. xxii. 23, 208 >ap ype “HN? Faw MTIBDN ; which the LXX. render Asnyijoouet rd dvoed cov roils adeAQuis wou, ey wsow ex xhusias duvyjco cz. "The first word, 77208, “narrabo,” “annunciabo,” the apostle renders by d&arauyyeAo, more properly than they by dsmyqoouer. In the rest of the words there is a coincidence, the original being expressly rendered in them. For though ae be rendered simply “to praise,” yet its most frequent use, when respecting God as its object, is “to praise by hymns or psalms;”’ as the apostle here, “Yyevyiow oe, “Tibi hymnos canam,” or, “Te hymnis celebrabo,”—“I will sing hymns unto thee,” or “ praise thee with hymns:” which was the principal way of setting forth God’s praise under the old testament.
It is not certain whence the second testimony is taken. Some suppose it to be fromi Isa. viii. 17, from whence the last also is cited. The words of the prophet there, "mpi, are rendered by the LXX. Kal wesrobas toowor tx’ aire, the words here used by the apostle. But there are sundry things that will not allow us to close with this supposal :—First, the original is not rightly rendered by the LXX., and, as we shall see, the apostle’s words do exactly express the original in another place. Besides, ™? is never but in this place and once more turned into zelda by the LXX., but is constantly rendered by them sévw, or dxouiva: so | that it is not improbable but that these words might be inserted into the Greek text out of this place of the apostle, there being some presumptions and likeli- hoods that it was the place intended by him, especially because the next testimony used by the apostle consists. in the words immediately ensuing these in the pro- phet. But yet that yields another reason against this supposition; for if the apostle continued on the words of the prophet, to what end should he insert in the midst of them that constant note of proceeding unto another testimony, «a! zed, “and again,” especially considering that the whole testimony speaks to the same purpose? ,
We shall, then, refer these words unto Ps. xviii. 3, “=""248; which the LXX. render, Eaxia éx’ airov, “I will hope in him;” the apostle more properly,” Ecogcs reroibas tx aire, “I will put my trust in him.” And that that psalm had re. spect unto the Lord Christ and his kingdom our apostle showeth elsewhere, by citing another testimony out of it concerning the calling of the Gentiles, Rom. xv. 9; nor was the latter part of the psalm properly fulfilled in David at all.
The last testimony is unquestionably taken out of Isa. viii. 18, where the words are, M7 "2 72 7x Hy) “2s MT; and rendered by the LXX., as here by the apostle, dod tye xo rob wroridioe & peor Zdwnev 6 Osds. 2°72 is properly “ nati,” yev- | yarot, or 2xyovot, those that are begotten or born of any one, whilst they are in their tender age. But it may be réndered by rasdéaz, as it is by the LXX., Gen. xxx. 26, xxxii. 23, xxxiii. 1, 2, which is “ children” in a larger sense.
7 Exrosirion.— Ayie€., according to Ebrard, refers neither to sanctification nor to justification, as such, but to the total change in their relation to God which
412 AN EXPOSITION OF THE [CHAP. II.
Ver. 11-18.—For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to: call them brethren; saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.