Mou rov ev oupavoTf
ryv fiafftXsiav ruv ovpavuv,1 but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in Heaven,1 he shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven J) These last words,2 " ipse intrabit in regnum coelorum," 1 " he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven" are found in that most ancient authority, the Latin Vulgate,3 and from it in both Hebrew editions4 of St Matthew, in the Anglo-Saxon Version,5 in Jerome, and in Lupus,0 Ep. 84, and, perhaps from another version, in Cyprian. The copyists of later times, slipping from ovpavoTg to ovpavuiv, have omitted the clause. In antithetical pas sages of this character, the sacred writers frequently employ the figure entitled Plenus SermoJ
22. IloXXo/, many) even of those, perhaps, whom posterity has canonized and commanded to be accounted blessed and saints ; many, certainly, of those who have had rare gifts, and have shown at times a good will (see Mark ix. 39), who apprehend the power and the wdsdom, but not the mercy of God. — JpoD<r/, shall say) flattering themselves in their own persuasion. Many souls will retain the error, with which they deceive themselves, even up to that day:8 \_A miserable expectation, previously, is theirs: an awful judgment, subsequently! — V. g.] see ch. xxv. 11. Hence may be illustrated the doctrine of the state after death. In the Judgment all things will at length be made known : see Rom.
1 The word is in the plural number. — (I. B.)
2 They are not found in E. M.— (I. B.)
3 See p. 14, f. n. !.—(!. B.)
* See Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra, pt. II. Sect. 1, §§ 4, 5, 6 ; and Bengel's App. Crit. pt. I. Sect. 32, Obs. 6.— (I. B.)
Vulg. abc Cypr. Ilil. add "ipse intrabit in regnum ccelorum:" they moreover must read xvro; ipse, not as Beng. has it, hie, ovro;. BZ and most of the oldest authorities omit the clause. — ED.
5 Supposed to have been executed in the eighth century. See TIartwell Horne,vo\. II. Pt. I. chap. 3, Sect. iii. § 4.— (I. B.)
6 LUPUS SERVATIUS (or SERVATUS), a native of France, and disciple of the celebrated Aldric, who sent him to Fulda to study the Holy Scriptures under the famous Rabanus Maurus. lie became Abbot of Ferriere A.D. 842, and distinguished himself both as a scholar and a theologian. His character stands high both as a man and an author. — (I. B )
7 i.e. give the words in full, even though any reader might have readily supplied them. — ED.
8 Sc. the day of judgment. — (I. B.)