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final. It is to precede the new heaven and the new earth. Isa. xv. 17; lxvi. 22; 2 Pet. iii. 18; Apoc. xxi. 1.
Signifieth (Syd07). From 8A0s manifest, evident. To make manifest to the mind. Used of indications which lead the mind to conclusions about the origin or character of things. See Thucyd. i. 3; Aesch. Pers. 518. Comp. 1 Cor. iii. 18; Heb. ix. 8; 1 Pet. i. 11. Appropriate to prophetic revelations.
The removing (rH wetabeow). See on ch. vii. 12. For the thought comp. 1 J. ii. 17; 1 Cor. vii. 31.
As of things that are made (as zrevrounuévwv). Made indeed by God, who also makes the new heaven and the new earth (Isa. lxv. 17; lxvi. 22), but made to pass away.
That the things which cannot be shaken may remain (iva petvn TA ph carevdpeva). Whether we consider the things which are shaken, the old heavens and earth which pass away, or the new heaven and earth which cannot be shaken, both are memommpéva made by God. The writer perceives this, and therefore adds to as of things that are made a clause stating that they were made (by God himself) to pass away. Accordingly, ta in order that is to be con- nected with zezoinuévwr, after which the comma should be removed. Rend. “the removal of things made in order that they might await the things which are not shaken.” Mévew is used in this sense, await, Acts xx. 5, 23, and often in Class.*
28. Receiving a kingdom (SactAclav rapadapBavortes). The participle gives no note of time, but simply indicates the fact that Christians as such receive. The compounded prep-
* Another mode of rendering is ‘things which are made to the end that the things which cannot be shaken may abide.” To this it is justly objected that pelvy is thus compelled to assume an elliptical sense: ‘‘ Come into the place of the things removed and so abide ; for as Alford remarks, ‘‘ things which cannot be shaken remaining merely, would be a matter of course.”
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osition mapa adds to the idea of receiving that of transmission or communication. They receive from God. See Dan. vii. 18. Bacvneéa in the sense of the kingdom of Christ, in this epis- tle only here and ch. i. 8 (cit™). See on Matt. iii. 2; Tayi:
Let us have grace (é€ywpev yapw). For grace rend. thank- fulness. See L. xvii. 9; 1 Tim. i. 12- 2 Tim. i. 8. Comp. Ps. 1. 23.
Acceptably (evapécrws). N.T.°, CLXX. ’Evapeoteiv to be well pleasing, ch. xi. 5,6; xiii. 16. For the adjective evdpectos well pleasing, see on Tit. ii. 9.
With reverence (wera eddaBelas). Rend. “with pious care.” reverence is translated from T. R. aiSods (see on 1 Tim. ii. 9). “See on ch. v. 7; xi. 7.
Fear (déous). N. T.°.. See 2 Mace. iii. 17, 80; xii. 22; xiii. 16; xv. 23. Its fundamental idea is timid apprehension of danger; while ¢¢éBos is the terror which seizes one when the danger appears. Schmidt (Synon. 139, 10) illustrates happily. In a primitive forest an undefined sense of possible danger possesses one, and makes his heart beat quickly at every rustle of a leaf. This is dos. When the voice and tread of a wild beast are distinctly heard close at hand, the déos becomes ¢éBos. The phrase “with pious care and fear” is not explanatory of acceptably. These are to accompany (vera) acceptable service. They do not imply a cringing or slavish feeling, but grow out of the warning in ver. 25, which runs through the two following verses, and implies that the catastrophe of ver. 27 will be final, leaving no more opportun- ity to retrieve the refusal of God’s invitation to the privi- leges of the new covenant, or the relapse into the superseded economy of Judaism.