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3. Kvpie, rods rrpotpijras Gov — rr\ v ^/vyfjv [JjOv) 1 Kings xix. 14, LXX., syTcareXivov rr}V d/aflijzqv Gov oi u/oi Ttfpa^X, ra dvciaGriipia god xoiQziXov, x.ui rods npotpriras aov ansKrsi vav sv po/Mpa/cp, xai vtfoX'sXei/AfAcci ey& f/jovuraros, xa/ fyrovGi rr\ v ^v/fv /aou XafisTv aurqv. The children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant , thrown down Thine altars , and slain Thy prophets with the sword , and Iy even I only , am left , and they seek my life to take it away. The nicety of the apostle’s style is remarkable ; the lxx. in this passage use /xovw- rtxrog, as they often do ; Paul fiovos.
4. Ka reXiKov, I have left [Engl. Vers, not so well, reserved ]) who were not to be slain by Hazael, Jehu, or Elisha. The lxx., 1 Kings xix. 18, have xa/ xarotXs/]/w sv T Gparfk snru ^iXiddac dvbpcdv ‘Travru yovara , a odx, uxXaGav yovv ru> BaaX. A.nd I will have in Israel seven thousand men , all the knees , which have not bowed to Baal. From the verb Xe/Vw. [in xarsXivov, I have left ] we de- rive XsTfifia a remnant [a portion left] ; see what follows. — s/navrG), to myself) Paul adds this for the sake of emphasis, in antithesis to the complaint of Elias about his being left alone. The Lord know's His own people. — s^raTuG^/Xiovc, seven thousand) among a people, who had become reduced to a wonderfully small number, the number is not small, nay it was itself the whole people, 1 Kings xx. 15. From these the whole posterity of the ten tribes at least were descended. Heb. ^3, i.e. purely such as these , without any admixture of the worshippers of Baal. I do not say, that they were the same individuals, who are mentioned in 1 Kings xx. 15, and xix. 18 ; but the number is equal, viz., seven thousand, in ck. xx. 15, and about seventy years after- wards, in ch. xix. 18, after the time of Hazael, Jehu and Elisha, comp. 2 Kings xiii. 7, 14. — avbpas^ men) Men were chiefly taken into account in reckoning, and were present at public worship ; therefore their wives and children also are to be added to the seven thousand. — TJj BaaX) In the feminine gender, supplying s/xoi//, the image of Baal, used by way of contempt, and antithetic to men. So the lxx. also Judg. ii. 11, etc. Under the asser- tion of guiltlessness as to the worship of Baal, guiltlessness as to the worship of the golden calves1 is included.
5. Olv, then) The conclusion drawn from the Old to the New Testament.
1 Set up by Jeroboam in Dan and Bethel, 1 Kings xii. 29. — Ed
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