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[demonstration], declaration ) Comp, notes at ch. i. 17. — d/d rr\v irdpiGiv, for [Engl. Vers.] the pretermission [passing by]) Paul, in the Acts, and epistles to Ephesians, Colossians, and Hebrews, along with the other apostles, often uses atpttiv, remission : None but he alone, and in this single passage, uses ^rdpidiv, pretermis- sion ; and certainly not without some good reason. There was remission even before the advent and death of Christ, ch. iv. 7, 3 ; Matt. ix. 2, in so far as it implies the application of grace to individuals ; but pretermission in the Old Testament had respect to transgressions, until ( dtfoXvrputig ) redemption of [or from ] them was accomplished in the death of Christ, Heb. ix. 15 ; which redemption , d^oXvrpuffig, itself is, however, sometimes also called a<p&<ng, Eph. i. 7. Uapihou is nearly of the same im- port as vnepidsiv, Acts xvii. 30. Hence, in Sir. xxiii. 3 (2) w <ps tdecrQai and apiivai are parallel; for both imply the punish- ment of sin. Ed. Hoeschel, p. 65, 376. ‘rdpsag, pretermission [the passing over or by sins] is not an imperfect upaig, remis- sion ; but the distinction is of quite a different sort ; abolition or entire putting away is opposed to the former (as to this abolition , dOsrrjffig, see Heb. ix. 26), retaining to the latter, John xx. 23. Paul, at the same time, praises God’s forbearance . The object of pretermission are sins ; the object of forbearance are sinners, against whom God did not prosecute His claim. So long as the one and other of these existed, the justice [righteousness] of God was not so apparent ; for He did not seem to be so exceedingly angry with sin as He really is, but appeared to leave the sinner to himself, djxsXsTv, to regard not. Heb. viii. 9 [fiLzX^a, u I re- garded them not”] ; but in the blood and atoning death of Christ, God’s justice [righteousness] was exhibited, accom- panied with His vengeance against sin itself, that He might be Himself just , and at the same time accompanied with zeal for the deliverance of the sinner, that He might be Himself [at the same time also] the justifier ; and therefore very frequent men- tion of this vengeance and of this zeal is made by the prophets, and especially by Isaiah, for example, ix. 6, and lxi. 2. And did, on account of [not for , as Eng. vers.] that pretermission in the forbearance of God, it was necessary that at some time there should be made a demonstration [a showing forth, svdsi%iv] of Hi $