Kal drurrdéy rovrovs doo, “ Et liberaret ipsos,” “hos,” “ quotquot,”’ “ qui- cunque,’—“and free those who.” ’Azaadrru is “to dismiss,” “ discharge,” “free ;” and in the use of the word unto the accusative case of the person, the genitive of the thing is added or understood: “Arwadrrw ce rovrov,—*I free thee from this.” Tavras dranrracey oc rs 6pbarwias, Aristoph— To deliver thee from this eye- sore.” And sometimes the genitive case of the thing is expressed where the accusative of the person is omitted: ’Awaanrarrety QoCov,—that is, rive, to free or deliver one from fear ;” as here the accusative case of the person is expressed and the genitive of the thing omitted: “Araandéy rovrovs,—that is, Qd6ov or Saverov, “ to deliver them,’ that is, from death or from fear because of death.
"Evoxor joov dovarciacs. ”Evoxos is “ obnoxious,” |“ obstrictus,” “reus,” ‘ dam- nas.” He that is legally obnoxious, subject, liable to any thing; that is, law, crime, judge, judgment, punishment, in all which respects the word is used. He that is under the power of any law is evoxos 7G véww, “ subject unto its authority and penalty.” See Matt. v. 21, 22, xxvi. 66; Mark iii. 29; 1 Cor. xi. 27; James ii. 10. Now the dovasie, “servitude,” or “ bondage,” here mentioned, is penal, and therefore are men said to be ¢voyor, “obnoxious” unto it,’
Ver. 14, 15.—Foragmuch then as [or, seettg therefore that| the children are [were in common] ‘partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise [after the same manner| took part [did partake] of the same; that
* Reapines.—Tischendorf, on the strength of a considerable preponderance of MS. authorities, reads wiweros xual capnos.
Exposirion.—He, in order to make us partakers in his sonship to God, has first taken part in our sonship to Adam,
TRANSLATIONS.—Karapy. Render powerless.—Oraik. Subdue him.—Stuart._ Undo him.—De Weite.—Ep.
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through [dy] death he might destroy [make void the authority of | him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver [ free, discharge] them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
In the former verses, as was showed, the apostle declared the necessity that there was on the part of God, intending to bring many sons unto glory, to constitute such a union between them and the captain of their salvation as that it might be just for him to suffer in their stead. In these he proceeds to manifest in par- ticular what that nature is in the common participation whereof the union designed did consist, wherein they were all of one, and what were the especial reasons why the Lord Christ was made par- taker of that nature. This coherence of these verses Chrysostom briefly gives us: Efra deikaus ray ddeAoirgra, xa) rhy airiav ridnor rig oixovouias,— Having showed the brotherhood” (that was between Christ and the children) “he lays down the causes of that dispen- sation;” and what they are we shall find here expressed.
There are sundry things which the apostle supposeth in these words as known unto and granted by the Hebrews; as, first, that the devil had the power of death; secondly, that on this account men were filled with fear of it, and led a life full of anxiety and trouble by reason of that fear; thirdly, that a deliverance from this condition was to be effected by the Messiah; fourthly, that the way whereby he was to do this was by his suffering. All which, as they are contained in the first promise, so that they were allowed of by the Hebrews of old we have fully proved elsewhere. And by all these doth the apostle yield a reason of his former concession, that the Messiah was for a little while made lower than the angels, the ’ eauses and ends whereof he here declares. There are in the words,—
First, A supposition of a twofold state and condition of the chil- dren to be brought unto glory:—1. Natural, or their natural state and condition; they were all of them in common partakers of flesh and blood: “Forasmuch then as the children were partakers of flesh and blood.” 2. Moral, their moral state and condition; they were obnoxious unto death, as it is penal for sin, and in great bon- dage through fear of it: “' Them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
Secondly, There is a double affirmation with respect unto this sup- position, on the part of Christ, the captain of salvation:—1. As to their natural condition, that he did partake of it, he was so to do: “He also himself did partake of the same.’ 2. As to their moral condition, he freed them from it: “ And deliver them,”
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Thirdly, The means whereby he did this, or this was to be done, evidencing the necessity of his participation with them in, their condition “of nature, that he might relieve them from their condition of trouble; he did it by death: “ That by death.”
Fourthly, The immediate effect of his death, tending unto their delivery and freedom, and that is the destruction of the devil, as to his power over and interest in death as penal, whereof their deliver- ance is an infallible consequent: “That he might destroy him,” ete.