also are the hearers who are commanded to prepare the way, and there is the Coming of the Lord. St Matthew, also, in ch. iv. 15, contains something different from the Hebrew accents. — Cf. Gnomon on Ileb. iii. 7. — TJJV odbv, the way) There is one primary way, and this includes many tracks, rp![3ov$. — Kvplou, of the Lord) The Hebrew nirv, Jehovah, for which the Hebrews of later ages substituted ^1N, Adonai, is rendered by the LXX. Kvpiog, Lord, In this passage Christ is intended. The appellation Kvpioc, Lord, when applied to Christ in the New Testament, has various meanings, according to the variety of circumstances, times, and speakers. In passages quoted from the Old Testa ment it frequently corresponds to the names nin11 and TIK, of which the one expresses His majesty as the Son of God, the other, His glory also as the Messiah. Men amongst whom He walked addressed Him thus with various purport, according to the various extent of their faith. From that time forward, the apostles, and the faithful in general, frequently employed this appellation with reference to His dominion and authority over His own followers, and over all things beside, even in His state of humiliation,1 but rather in His state of exaltation : in which cases the pronoun " my" is sometimes added, which is never joined with the tetragrammaton mrp. — t&slag) straight.
4. Avrog & o 'lwdwq$, x-r.X., And the same John, etc.) A re markable description. Even the dress and food of John preached, being in accordance with his teaching and office. Such as should be that of penitents, such was always that of this minister of penitence. — Cf. Gnomon on ch. ix. 14, and xi. 18. — a-rb ov, of camels' hair) His dress was mean,2 and rough,
1 " Exinanitionis ;" literally, of being emptied out : a phrase of frequent occurrence, suggested by the words in Phil. ii. 7, tetvrov lx.tvuat, He emptied Himself — rendered in E. V., made Himself of no reputation. — (I. B.)
2 " Parabilis." It is curious to see the changes which took place in the meaning of this word. In classical Latin, it signified (1) procurable, (2) easy to be procured, (3) ordinary, cheap, not costly, mean. — (See Ainsworth, in voc.) In the middle ages, as we learn from the Glossarium Manuale ad Scriptores Medics et Infimce Latinitatis, it had a very different signification. The abbreviate of Du Gauge writes thus : " PAKABILIS. Testamentum Perpetui Episcopi Turonensis: Equum meum Parabilem, et mulum quern elegeris do, lego. Equus forte qui Gallis dicitur Cheval de parade, ad pom- pam, ad apparatum." — (I. B.)