20. 'O &, x.r.X., but he, etc.) In every individual soul one dis tinguishing characteristic is especially conspicuous. — si&i)s, imme diately} Too great haste and joyfulness is not always the best sign, when the whole strength pours itself forth in outward de monstrations, and consumes itself in them. — pera, %a^aj >.«,&- f3dwv, with joy receiving) see Gal. iv. 14, 15.
21. '?/£«>, root) which is plainly necessary, and springs from the word itself. — vpoffxa/pos J<m, is temporary}5 He believes whilst the time inclines him ; see Luke viii. 13. The adjective
(and should be converted) more closely with avvuat (should understand) than wi'h lu.au^.0,1 (I should heal). And in many passages of the Old Testament which are quoted in the New, the Hebrew accents agree more accurately with the force of the exact words of the Inspired original than the punctua tion employed by the Greeks : e.g. Matt. iv. 15, xix. 5, xxi. 5; Luke iv. 18 ; Acts vii. 6, viii. 32 ; Heb. i. 12, iii. 9, xii. 26, xiii. 6. And yet these Greeks were Christians. We ought not, therefore, to think that the Hebrew accents have originated with the modern Jews left to their blindness. Their origin is far more ancient, far more sublime." — APP. CIUT., Ed. II., p. 120.
1 " Subjectum quo beatitudinis." — (I. B.)
2 That such is Bengel's meaning is clear from his own German Version, where he renders py avviivro; by " und nicht vcrnimmt" — (I. B.)
" E. V. "dureth for a while."— (I. B.)