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in the Divine good pleasure ; honour , originating in the reward bestowed by God ; and peace , for the present and for ever. For the d's, but , expresses the opposition between wrath , and glory ; indignation , and honour; affliction and anxiety [ tribulation and anguisli], and peace. Comp. ch. iii. 17, 16, of which catalogue the joys are viewed, as they proceed from God ; the sorrows as they are felt by man ; for the latter are put absolutely in the nominative, while the former, on the contrary, are put in the accusative in ver. 7, as being such things, as God bestows. But why are honour and sorrow set in opposition to each other, since disgrace is the converse of honour, sorrow of pleasure ? Ans. : In this passage, we must carefully attend to the word hpfari, peace , which is here opposed to sorrow , that is to say, to tribula- tion and anguish. But at Isaiah lxv. 13, joy (and honour) is opposed to shame (and grief), each of the two parts of the sen- tence being expressed in abbreviated form, and requiring to be supplied from its own opposite. Besides, in the classification of goods, honour is the highest good, and, in the classification of punishments, sorrow is the greatest punishment ; and the highest degree on the one side, including all below it, is opposed to the highest degree on the other ; so we have glorying and woe , 1 Cor. ix. 16.
9, 10. Karspya?o,u,svov spyaQo/uevui). The distinction between these words is more easily felt, than explained, more easily ridi- culed, than refuted. There is another distinction : Wi is
said of the punishment ; for punishment falls upon it , and the soul will bear it unwillingly; vavri ru> spy atyfi&vy, the dative of advantage, is said of the reward.
12. " Os ot yap , for as many ) the Gentiles : and as many , the J ews. — avo^s) This word occurs twice by antanaclasis,1 in the sense, not in the law , not by the law , ( ovx sv m/aw, ov did 1/0/4.00) as is evident from the antithesis. — tf/joaprov) sinned : the past tense, [past] in reference to the time of judgment [shall then be found to have sinned]. — xui dffroXowrat, they shall also perish) the word, also, denotes the correspondence between the mode of sinning, and the mode of perishing ; he says, they shall also perish ; for it was not convenient to say, in this instance, avo/Awg, they shall be judged
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