gives thanlcs) Thanksgiving sanctifies all actions, however out- wardly different, which do not weaken it, 1 Cor. x. 30 ; Col. ii. 7, iii. 17 ; 1 Tim. iv. 4. The, For , however, has greater force than and , as thanksgiving is more connected with eating, than with abstinence from eating ; and in him, who eats , there are both the fruits and the criterion, and in some respects the ground of faith, even of that faith, of which we have an account at ver. 22, and of an assured conscience ; with respect to him wrho does not eat , that faith, of which we read at ver. 22, is no doubt defective as to its fruits, criterion, and the ground on wdiich it rests, but yet the man retains all the three as regards a conscience void of offence [not violated]. — xai ivyapurru, and gives thanks ) for herbs, ver. 2.
7. 'Hy uwv, of us) believers ; for all others live and die to them- selves.— saurfi, to himself) Wellerus says: No man ought to live to himself, neither formally [formaliter], so that, as one at his own disposal, he should regulate his life according to his own desires ; nor materially [materialifer], because, satisfied with him- self, he may wish to give way to self-indulgence ; nor [finaliter] with this end in view, that he may make the scope of his life the enjoyment of pleasures. — , aKoOvfaxsi, lives, dies) the art of dying is the same as that of living.
8. Tti Kvfiw, to the Lord) implying the Divine majesty and power of Christ. — sg/azv) we are, not merely we begin to be.
9. Ka/ atr'sQave xai sfyffsv, both died and revived) This agrees with what goes before and with what follows. Baumgarten reads %at a vs&rvj, and alleges the probability of omission on the part of the transcribers, but gives no reason for this probability. I think the addition probably is due to this, that the transcribers very easily laid hold of a very well-known expression concerning Christ, dFsdavs xai avs<rn j, 1 Thess. iv. 14 ; and when this was done, some omitted xai Zfyffev, others, however, also retained it, and moreover placed it either first, as in Iren. 1. iii. c. 20 ; or in the middle, as in the Syriac version ; or third in order, as in Chrysostom, who, however, in his exposition, passes over the xa / av'tGrr,. Whitby, who, according to Baumgarten, ought to be consulted, refutes himself ; for he says, that aned avsv and vexguy, efym and £ uivruv correspond to each other (as also Origen observes, c. Cels., p. 103, ed. Hoesch.) avknj finds nothing to which it