respects such datives. [Engl. Vers. makes the clat. follow vpoffrtt)., " more shall be given to you that fear."]
26. " Avdpu-ros, a man) With this man God and Christ are compared, with a view to describe the several ages and grades [stages of progress] of the whole Christian Church ; comp. ver. 29.
27. Kadiudr, xai iyfipr,Tat, should sleep and rise) With these two verbs are connected by Chiasmus [See Append.] the nouns night and day [sleep referring to night; rise, to day]. Moreover, sometimes night is wont to be put before day, as in Gen. i. [The evening and the morning were the first day, ver. 5]. — oux ofdw (nvroc, lie knoweth not himself) After the safeguards of grace have been conferred on men, God leaves them in some measure to themselves. Yet this clause may be made to refer to the believing man himself; and then, of its own accord, in ver. 28, is opposed to man's care, not to the cultivation of the earth.
28. Avro^drri, of its own accord) This is not to the exclusion of cultivation of the land, the rain from heaven, and the sun's beams. [But there is also intimated a freedom of increasing and growing, either in good or evil, granted by the Lord of the land to the man. — V. g.] — ^prov, the blade) the grass-like young shoot ; so in the commencement spiritual virtues [graces] are scarcely to be distinguished from natural ones. — Jra, then next) Marvellous is the process of the successive increase : this shall hereafter be made manifest.
29. riapadui, shall have yielded) this also of its own ac cord [ver. 28]. Supply itself. — iMeu;, immediately) As be fore he did not put in the sickle too soon, so now he does not put it in too late. — acoarg^Xe/, He sendetK) An abbre viated expression for, He sendeth, viz. men furnished with a sickle : for aKoeriX/.iffda/ is properly applied to a living person [agent].
30. llvi ofjboiitia'jj'Aiv, ichereunto shall we liken") The plural ; comp. John in. 11.
omission of this clause, TO?J d.Mvwai». The Gnomon and Vers. Germ, retain it.— E. B.
BCDGLAc Vulg. omit it. However A, with Rec. Text, supports it. — ED.