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that the souls would be ; now he wishes souls to be subject to the magistrate. It is the soul, which does either good or evil, ch. ii. 9, and those in authority are a terror to the evil work, i.e. to the evil doer. — A man’s high rank does not exempt him from obedience. — s^outfcug bnspsyjibtscug) s^ovffja, from ei/xl, i )^spsyja from s being is before having : virspsyoveaig contains the aetiology [See Append. Be subject to the powers because they are vKspsyovffou : the cause or reason], 1 Pet. ii. 13, Fr. Souverain, Sovereign. — vnorufftsadui) The antithesis to this is avnraoffo^og, ver. 2. The Conjugates are re rayjtisvoi, 3iarayr,. Let him be subject, an ad- monition especially necessary to the Jews. — s^ovria, power) sgovtrfa, denotes the office of the magistrate in the abstract ; a/ 3s sgouff/'a/, ver. 2, those in authority in the concrete, therefore 3s is interposed, sKirarntov [forming an Epitasis, i.e. an emphatic addition to ex- plain or augment the force of the previous enunciation. — Appen.]. The former is more readily acknowledged to be from God than the latter. The apostle makes an affirmation respecting both. All are from God, who has instituted all powers in general, and has constituted each in particular, by His providence, — e/ unb)
See App. crit. Ed. ii. ad h. v.1
2. A/arayJj, the ordinance) the abstract, in which the concrete is implied. So 1 Pet. ii. 13, xr'nsig, creature , in the abstract [but Engl. Yers. the ordinance ] ; it at the same time includes, for example, the king, in the concrete. — uvdsarrixiv) The Preterite, i.e. by that very act resists. — xpi/j.a) Divine judgment, through the magistrate. — X^ovrai, they shall bring on themselves) While they take to themselves another’s power, they shall by their own spon- taneous act take [bring] on themselves, receive judgment. We have here the figure 2 Mimesis [an allusion to the words of another with a view to refute him].
3. 3”O jx — ayaQuv) not — of good works. This is immediately
1 G Orig. D corrected later, read « to. But AB read vn 6. Vul g.fg and Iren, have the transl. Lat. a. — Ed.
Jerome omits from oti 3s to siaiv. But ABD(A)G Vulg. Memph. fg Versions, Iren. 280, 321, retain the clause, omitting, however, s^ovaicti : which word is retained by Orig. and both the Syr. Versions and Bee Text. — Ed.
2 See Appendix.
3 The margin of the 2d Ed. prefers the reading, rd dyotdep tpya> , dXhd rep
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