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epitasis. [See Append.] In many passages, where both na- tures of the Saviour are mentioned, the human nature is put first, because the divine was most distinctly proved to all, only after His resurrection from the dead. [ Hence it is , that it is frequently repeated , He, and not any other. Acts ix. 20, 22, etc. — V. g.] The participle bpnsQsvrog expresses much more than utpupiffpevos in ver. 1 ; for one, ucpop/fyrai, out of a number of other persons, but a person, opt^srai, as the one and only person, Acts x. 42. In that well-known passage, Ps. ii. 7, pn [the decree] is the same as bp us [Tog ; [the decree implying] that the Father has most deterrninately said, Thou art My Son. The d-xobu^tg, the approving of the Son, in regard to men, follows in the train of this opuspov. — Acts ii. 22. Paul particu- larly extols the glory of the Son of God , when writing to those to whom he had been unable to preach it face to face. Comp. Heb. x. 8, etc., note. — sv bwd[xu, in (or with ) power), most power- fully, most fully ; as when the sun shines in bwdfisi, in his strength. — Rev. i. 16. — xara cmO/za d yu*usbn\g, according to the spirit of holiness) The word CTlp dyiog, holy , when the subject under discussion refers to God, not only denotes that blameless rectitude in acting, which distinguishes Him, but the God- head itself, or, to speak with greater propriety, the divinity , or the excellence of the Divine nature. Hence ciyiutvvri has a kind of middle sense between «y/oV»jra and ay/a<r/x&v. — Comp. Heb. xii. 10, 14. \_u His holiness ,” ay/oV^g; “ without
a yia(SiLbg sanctification , no man shall see the Lord.”] So that there are, as it were, three degrees, sanctification (sanctificatio), sanctity (or sanctimony , u sanctimonia,”) holiness (sanctitas) Holiness itself (sanctitas) is ascribed to God the Father , and to the Son , and to the Holy Ghost. And since the Holy Spirit is not mentioned in this passage, but the Spirit of holiness {sanctity, sanctimonise), we must inquire farther, what that expression, which is evidently a singular one, denotes. The name Spirit is expressly, and that too, very often, given to the Holy Spirit ; hut God is also said to be a Spirit ; and the Lord, Jesus Christ, is called Spirit, in antithesis indeed to the letter, 2 Cor. iii. 17. But in the strict sense, it is of use to compare with the idea here the fact, that the antithesis flesh and spirit occurs, as in this pas- sage, so rather frequently, in passages speaking of Christ, 1 Tim.
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