Xapi(3dvsrai) <ruv has the same force in this compound as in <sv[i~ fiaprupe?, ver. 16, [i.e., along with us]. — raTg dshvsiatg) infirmities , which exist in our knowledge and in our prayers ; the abstract for the concrete, infirmities , that is our prayers , which are in themselves infirm. — yap, for ) Paul explains what the infirmities are. — ri- — x,a6h, what — as) comp, how or what , Matt. x. 19. — vntspsvrvyydni) wr'ep, abundantly [over and above] as in ver. 37, v'TKpviTiuf/jSv, and v,7r£p£‘7ripiff<fsvffsv, ch. v. 20. Both vvepsvrvyy^dvsi in this verse, and hrvyyd'ju, ver. 27, are the predicates of the same subject, viz. the Holy Spirit. It is the general practice, first to put the compound verb with its proper emphasis, and then afterwards merely to repeat, in its stead, the simple form. Thus in Rom. xv. 4 we have first or posy p d<p jj, and subsequently in the second place, eypapri follows, which is the genuine reading. — <rrsvay/M?g, with groans) Every groan (the theme or root of the word being arsvog, strait) proceeds from the pressure of great straits : therefore the matter [the component material] of our groaning is from ourselves ; but the Holy Spirit puts upon that matter its form [puts it into shape], whence it is that the groanings of believers, whether they proceed from joy or sorrow, cannot be uttered.
27. As) [Not and , as Engl. Vers., but] refers to a privative in dXaXyroig [Though they can not be uttered, yet , etc.] — rag xaphiag, the hearts) The Spirit dwells in the hearts [of believers], and makes intercession. Christ is in heaven. He who searches the hearts is the Father, to whom especially that act is attri- buted in Scripture. — rb (ppovqfia rov rnsv/uarog, the mind of the Spirit). — Comp. <pp6vvj[xa, ver. 6, Sensumf the nominative : from the plural sensa , sensorum. — rov 'xvsv^arog, of the Spirit) the Holy Spirit, as in the preceding verse. — Tiara) according to [ad], xard 0g ov, according to God , not Tiara uvdpuKov, according to man (comp. 1 John iii. 20) [after the manner of God, not man], as is worthy of God, and in a manner acceptable and manifest to Him. The Holy Spirit understands the style of the court of heaven, which is acceptable to the Father. Kara is the em- phatic word of the sentence, inasmuch as it is placed at the
1 Beng. uses sensum here to express (p^ovnpcx, not the accus. of sensus, but an old disused nominative singular, the plural of which is often found sensa sensorum. — Ed.