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sometimes threatened, ch. xvi. 4; Phil. ii. 17, note. Many martyrs, who survived other tortures, were despatched with the sword, srsXsiuidrimv [consummati sunt].
36. Kadwg, as) He gives the reason, why he enumerates in the preceding verse so many trials. — on — ccpay rig) So the LXX., Ps. xliv. 23. Both the church of the Old Testament, and much more that of the New Testament, might have so spoken ; and the latter may still so speak. — svsxa crov, for thy sake) It is a good thing thus [i.e. for Christ’s sake] to suffer : the sorrows, in which the world abounds, and which are braved for other reasons, are vain. — Oavurov^sda, we are killed) The first class of the blessed [departed saints] is for the most part filled up with those, who met a violent death, Matt, xxiii. 34, 35 ; Heb. xi. 37 ; Rev. vi. 11, xx. 4. — oXriv rfiv ij/nspav) all the day. So the lxx., in many passages, DVn ^3, a proverbial expression; the whole day , all the day : Matt. xx. 6. Ps. quoted above, ver. 16, 9. — gXoy/V^/xgy, we are accounted) by our enemies, as also by ourselves.
37. 'rKspvixufjsH, ice are more than conquerors) We have strength not only equal and sufficient, but far more than suffi- cient for overcoming the preceding catalogue of evils : and not even shall the catalogue of evils, which follows, injure us, be- cause Christ, because God is greater than all. In this section there is designated that (as it were) highest mark which the Christian can attain, before his departure to the abodes of the blessed. — did roD dyaKfaawoc) The Aorist : through Him , who hath with His love embraced us in Christ, and for that very reason proves us by trials and adversity.
38. ngcre/tf/xa/, I am persuaded) all doubt being overcome. — yap) Things of less weight do not hurt us : for even things of greater weight shall not hurt us. — ovrs Qdvarog, jc.r.X., neither death , etc.) This is introduced from ver. 34, in an admirable order :
Neither death shall hurt us, for Christ hath died :
nor life : comp. ch. xiv. 9. He rose again :
nor angels, nor principalities, nor things aWsf {g af tU rigM present , nor things to come : comp. Eph. ]iand 0f Q0d i. 20, 21. 1
nor power , nor height , nor depth , nor any He makes inter-
other creature.
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