And in Him Amen (kal év adté 16 aynv). The correct reading is: 610 nal dv adtod 76 dunv Wherefore also through im is the Amen. In giving this answer in His person and
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life, Christ puts the emphatic confirmation upon God’s promises, even as in the congregation the people say, Amen, verily. In Him is in His person: through Him, by His agency.
By us (6¢ yuov). Through our ministration. Christ, in and through whom are the yea and the amen, is so proclaimed by us as to beget assurance of God’s promises, and so to glorify Him.
21. Stablisheth—in Christ (@e@arav—eds). The present participle with ets nto indicates the work as it is in progress toward a final identification of the believers with Christ.
22. Sealed (a¢payicduevos). See on John iii. 33; Apoc. xxu. 10.
Earnest (appa8dva). Only here, ch. v. 5, and Eph.i.14. It means caution-money, deposited by a purchaser in pledge of full payment.
Of the Spirit. Not the foretaste or pledge of the Spirit, but the Spiret Himself in pledge of the fulfilment of the promises. By a common Greek usage the words are in apposition: the earnest which vs the Spirit.
23. | call God for a record (tov Ocdv em iKanodpas). Rev., better, wetness. A common classical idiom. Compare Plato: “Next will follow the choir of young men under the age of thirty, who will call upon the god Paean to testify to the truth of these words” (‘‘ Laws,” 664). Homer: “For the gods will be the best witnesses” (“ Iliad,” xxii., 254). Compare Rom. i. 9; Gal. i. 20; Philip. i. 8; 1 Thess. ii. 5,10; Gen. xxxi. 50, Sept. This particular form of expression occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. The verb is often translated appeal, as Acts xxv. 11,12. Also ¢o call upon in the sense of suppli- cation, Rom. x. 12, 13, 14; 1 Cor. i. 2.
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