its emphasis being declared by the verb p«r/£»j (lighteth, Lat. illuminet. (2.) John xiv. 2. 3, vopsvoftai srQtfj,daai TOIION v/j^Tv. xa? lav mftvQSi xai trot/Arista *TMIN TO-TTOV, x.r.X. / go to prepare A PLACE for you, and if I go and prepare FOR YOU a place, etc. Here the apparent contradiction is removed by the order of the words, " A PLACE is not to be prepared for you, since it is already prepared,"1 is the negative proposition. " FOR YOU is to be prepared a place, i.e. the entrance into that place is to be rendered sure," is the affirmative proposition. Both are equally true. (3.) Eph. ii. 1, 5, 'TMA2 ovra$ vsxpoi/s — 'ONTA2 J$,ua; vexpoits, YOU being dead — BEIJSTG us dead [Fr. vous etant morts, ETANT nous morts]. Here v,u,as {you) is put antithetically to rifjLoig (us), in Eph. i. 19 : and then oWa? (being), denotes the past state of death, opposed to vivification. (4.) James ii. 18, di?~6v /AOI rr,v TTI2TIN don IK (others read %upls2) ruv tpyuv tfou, xdyoi ^s/^w ffoi IK TUV 'EPFflN /iou rfc irlffrrt /AOU, Shoiv me thy FAITH by (others read without) thy WORKS, and I null show thee by my WORKS my faith. Here the first vianv (faith) refers to the words <tu irianv '^f's (thou hast faith), and the second, ipyuv (ivorks), to the words KO.JU 'ipya I-/JM (and I have works). These instances, extracted from four different writers of the New Tes tament, will suffice for the present. Now let us return to St Matthew. As the best MSS. have TATTA vdvra, THESE things all, in ver. 33, and IIANTA raura, ALL these things, in ver. 34 (although others confound the two modes of expression) ;3 the first ravra placed before vavra, is emphatic, so as to express things about to happen next (for which reason in the parallel passage, Mark xiii. 29 ; the <rai/ra is omitted) ; and this emphasis being granted, the second -ravrei expresses all, including these, things which were to come to pass next, in that generation. The pronoun ra\Jra (these) does not refer to the whole preceding discourse (for the previous signs, and the events which were to
1 See ch. xxv. 34, '•' Inherit the kingdom prepared (^To/^a^^vjj/) for you from the foundation of the world." — ED.
2 Such is the reading of E. M.— (I. B.)
s Dabc Vulg. Syr. Memph. with Bengel, read roci/rot 7rct,vTa. in ver. 33. But B and Rec. Text, TT«!/T« rxuT», and so Lachra. Be and Amiat. MS. of Vulg. read KIXVTOC, Tttvra,, with Lachm., Tisch., Beiig., and Rec. Text, in ver. 34. But DLa read T«VT« TKVTIX.. — Eu.