Amos ii. 11, lxx, eig ayiatpov ; Engl. Vers, has Naza-
rites.
23. T a, rb) The mark of the subject. — d^uv/a — ^ap/o^a, wages — gift) Bad works earn their own proper pay; not so, good works ; for the former obtain wages, the latter a gift : b^&via, wages , in the plural : yapnsiia, a gift , in the singular, with a stronger force.
1. *h) The disjunctive interrogation. There is a close con- nection here with ch. vi., the words of which, at ver. 6, 14, 21, xarapye/'tiQai, xvpisvsiv, leapfrog, Odvurog x.r.X. again occur prominently in this chapter. The comparison of the Old and New state is continued. — yivuiaxovti, to them that know) the Jews ; although it is the duty of all Christians to know the law. — 6 vojxog, the law) for example, of marriage. The whole law , in consonance with the opening of this portion, is put by synecdoche,1 for the law of marriage. — rov uvOpdfrou , over a man) i.e., over a woman, ver. 2, comp. 1 Pet. iii. 4, where the inner [“the hidden man”] pre- supposes the outer man, and the parallelism consists in this, that man is predicated also separately of the woman , not merely of Adam, the husband [‘ viro,’ the man , in the restricted sense of the term.] Man here is used generically ; but in the second verse, Paul applies it in a special and subordinate sense to the woman, as falling under the generic term. — ef oW, as long as) neither any longer nor any shorter. — £5j, lives) the Law [lives. But Engl. Yers. “ As long as he — the husband — liveth.”] A personification. In the apodosis, life and death are ascribed, not to the law, but to us ; whereas, here we have the protasis, in which, according to the meaning of the apostle, life or death is ascribed to the [marriage] law itself, and to the husband. What
1 See Appendix.