phecy of the Old Testament pointed, who holds the rights and primogeniture of the whole human race (see Luke iii. 23, 38), and to whom alone we owe that we are not ashamed of the name of man : see Ps. xlix. (xlviii.) 20, and cf. Rom. v. 15. Moreover, our Lord, whilst walking amongst men, by this appel lation, both expressed, and as suitable to the circumstances (pro economia) of that time, concealed amongst men (cf. ch. xxii. 45) and hid from Satan the fact that He was 6 Tib;, the Son, abso lutely so called, i.e. the Son of God promised and given to man, Gen. iii. 15 ; Isa. ix. 6 ; and sprung from man, Heb. ii. 11 ; and at the same time, as it were, reminded Himself of His present condition, Matt. xx. 28 ; Phil. ii. 7, 8. In the same manner, He expressed both His crucifixion and His ascension by one word, u-4/wdw, / be lifted up, John xii. 32. Neither is this appel lation suited only to the state of His humiliation, but the ex pression, the Son of man, is used for every conspicuous situation of His, either in humiliation or exaltation ; see John xii. 34, and compare therewith, in the following verse, the light is with you. And it agrees with the very form of His body, as imply ing youth ; see Dan. vii. 13. Consider the following pas sages : — ver. 27, 28 ; ch. xii. 32, xxiv. 27, 30, 37, 39, 44, xxv. 31 ; Luke xvii. 22 ; John xii. 23-36, v. 27 ; Acts vii. 56. Therefore also this appellation does not once occur in the whole of the twenty-one apostolic epistles, but instead of it, the appella tion, the Son of God; for in Heb. ii. 6 the article is not added, and the words are those of David, not of St Paul, who yet frequentlv calls Christ both avdpwros (homo), and avqp (vir). See the Gnomon on Rom. v. 15. And even in the Apocalypse i. 13 and xiv. 14, as long before in Dan. vii. 13, that appellation is only alluded to, not actually applied to our Lord. The agree ment of the apostles, even in the case of this single phrase, shows that they wrote by the same Divine inspiration.
14. O/ j^sv — «XXo/ ds — irepoi df, some — some — and others) It is not sufficient that we should know the various opinions of others, we ought ourselves to have a fixed faith, which then may make progress, even by the opinions of others, though vain in them selves. — 'ludvnjv — % sva ruv Tfop^rSv, John — or one of the prophets) There is no need to refer this to the notion of a metempsychosis believed by the Pharisees ; for they expected the return of Elias