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affliction, etc., ver. 35 : likewise length of life, tranquillity, and all living men [as opposed to angels]. None of these things shall be hurtful, comp. 1 Cor. iii. 22 [in ver. 21 men are in- cluded].— uyyiXoi, angels) The mention of angels is made, after the implied mention of men, in the way of gradation ; 1 Cor. xv. 24, notei In this passage the statement may be understood as referring to good angels (conditionally, as Gal. i. 8)* and of wicked angels (categorically) : (for it will be found that the latter are also called angels absolutely, not merely angels of the devil; Matt. xxv. 41) ; 1 Cor. iv. 9, vi. 3, xi. 10 ; 1 Tim. iii. 16 ;
1 Pet. iii. 22 ; 2 Pet. in 4 ; Jude, ver. 6 ; Pev. ix. 11, etc. ; Ps. lxxviii. 49. — &pxah principalities) These are also compre- hended under the general name angels, as well as other orders^ Heb. i. 4, 14 ; but those seem to be specially denominated angels , who are more frequently sent than the rest of the heavenly orders. They are thus called principalities , and also thrones , Col. i. 16 ; but not kingdoms , for the kingdom belongs to the Son of God, 1 Cor. xv. 24, 25 . — ours svsffrojra ours fitWovrcc, nor things present nor things to come) Things past are not men- tioned, not even sins ; for they have all passed away. Present things are the events, that happen to us during our earthly pilgrimage, or which befall the whole world, until it come to an end. For the saints are viewed either individually, or as a united body. Things future refer to whatever will occur to us either after our time in the world, or after that of the whole world has terminated, as the last judgment, the conflagration of the world, eternal punishment ; or those things, which, though they now exist, will yet become known to us at length by name in the world to come, and not till then. — ours duvapig,1 nor power)
2 Avvotfug often corresponds to the Hebrew word and signifies forces , hosts.
39. Ours u^u/jba,- ours 8d6og, nor height nor deptli) Things past and future point to differences of times, height and depth to
the dead is here indicated rather than actual slaughter: from the considera- tion, that already in ver 35, every kind of death may he comprehended under the term sword. — E. B.
1 fg Vulg. Ambrose and Augustine support the singular 'hvvxy.tg. But all the other authorities quoted in my last note support 1vvccp.ug. — Ed.
2 D corrected by a l iter hand, d.
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