" RAK," he spits. An old English Version renders it Fie. Light persons are called D^i in Judges ix. 4, xi. 3; 2 Chron. xiii. 7 ; and xevbg, empty or vain, is thus used in James ii. 20. Reproof should reach even the trivial expressions and common manners of mankind, and that specifically ; see ver. 34, 35, etc. ; 1 Cor. xv. 32 ; James ii. 3, iv. 13. — rti 0uvzdpiu>, the San hedrim) or Great National Council of seventy-two Judges, which was held at Jerusalem, and decreed the more severe punish ments. — Maps, thou foot) A most harsh taunt denying common sense, without which a man is incurable and utterly deplorable ; cf. fLupavdrj in ver. 13, and the note upon it. The LXX. used the word pupbg very sparingly, the Son of Sirach frequently. — evo^og tffrai g/s rrjv y'eiwav rov <7rvp6c, he shall be criminal for the fiery Gehenna) An elliptical mode of speech1 for, so that he may be consigned to the fiery Gehenna — sc. the valley of the Son of Hinnom, where carrion and carcases lie unburied, and at length are burnt. The word ysma, Gehenna, does not occur in the Sep- tuagint ; in the New Testament it is used by St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke, and St James ; but not by either St John, St Paul, St Peter, or St Jude. Hiller (in his Onomata Sacra, p. 811) derives it from the Hebrew ^r\ ^ the Valley of Lamentation. Concerning the fire of that valley, see Jer. vii. 31, 32, etc. — s!f, etc., is used with the same force as in the expression sis xopaxag, to the ravens.2
23. 'Eav ovv, x.r.X., if therefore, etc.) Reconciliation is not said to be only then necessary, for the word ext?, there] indicates that you ought to have remembered it before ; but the meaning is, Whatever you are doing, even if you have already undertaken the best and most holy and most necessary matter, leave every thing until you have been reconciled to your brother : see Eph. iv. 26. They sin who do not make it up with their brother, until they are just about to receive the Holy Supper. Yet re conciliation is especially necessary, and an examination of the conscience especially imperative on those who are about to per form the most solemn act of devotion. — IT/, to) For it was the
1 See, on the Locutio Concisa, Appendix. — ED.
2 A phrase used by the Greeks to denote not only the disgrace of the gallows, but the still greater one of remaining unburied. — Liddell and Scott. -(I. B.)