godly, especially in cases of misdirected zeal. Even as far back as the days of the Judges, tribes had peculiar dialects.1
74. "Hp^aro, jc.r.X., he began, etc.) Hitherto he had not gone so far : now he altogether lost command of himself. — xaTa^i^a- Tifyiv,2 to curse) others read xaramdiparlfyiv : 3 that double com pound, however, is nowhere to be met with : whereas Irenaeus (Book I., ch. 13, § 2) has xaraSiftctriffavrtg [the participle first aorist active of xarotiz/Aari^u]. Justin Martyr also says, " xard- ^£,aa TO ffvtii&ai TO?$ avaSj/iar/^Vjcv," " it is a cursed thing to be joined with them that curse" And again he joins together dva3£/a,ar/<r//,o$ [an universally recognised word] and /caraSs/zar/er^oi; [a derivative of jcara^£,aar/£w]. CEcumenius, on Acts xxiii. 12, says, (( xctT S'TTiTaffiv t'/'pqTaj TO ava^t/Aa ug xai TO jcara^£/z.cr ffuy%a- raTi$erat 'yap TUI OVTI T& svavTi'w xai ouyxaTabixd^sTai" i.e., " The word avotitfAa is used with an intensive force, as also the word xaTuSi/ua [from which xara^aar/^w is derived] : for it is placed together with that which is opposed, and is condemned together with it." The word xaTo&i^a is always taken in an evil sense, as in Rev. xxii. 3 ; whereas avaSipa is also used in a good sense. — TOV &&f*am>i the man) compare however ch. xvi. 16. — e&sus, immediately) An important circumstance (magna circum- stantia). — If w^ffs, croived) Sins committed in the early morning are heinous.
75. Ka/, and) then at last. Unbelief, fear, sorrow, bind even the natural faculties, which the joy of faith revives. See Luke xxiv. 7, 8.4 — tipyxoTog, which said) A participle of mighty force.
1 See Judges xii. 6, where the Ephraimites are discerned by the test of Shibboleth.— (I. B.)
2 In his App. Grit., Bengel says in loc., x.ctTu.Stft.u.Ti&iv. Comp. Al. Aug. 1, 2, 4; Bye. Cant. Gehl. Mosc. Steph. omn. Wo. 1, 2 : et quindecim et viginti quinque alii, Orig. ut videtur (x,a.fot.va.^i^otri^iv) Er. et Al. vid. Gnom.—(\. B.)
s Such is the reading of E. M.— (I. B.)
"Kccrctde/nsiTi^itu is supported by the oldest uncial MSS. ABCD Vulg. has ' detestari ;' abc, " devotare se ;" which latter probably is the rendering of x.xr*vci8fft,istTig£iv of the Rec. Text, as this word expresses more strongly than «MMr*4tyMir/£ujt| extremis diris aliquem devovere ; " to make himself anathema." — ED.
4 ipvvadyi, remembered) Forgetfulness is not unattended with loss and in jury. But, nevertheless, if Peter had not ceased to remember the words of