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corresponds. I have cleared away the objection from the testi- monies of the fathers, adduced by him, in the Apparatus. The reading % Zp <?ev is well supported; avefytrev rests on much weaker authority.1 — vsxguv, of the dead ) The dying and the dead rejoice in the Lord Jesus, who has died and abolished death and van- quished the devil, Heb. ii. 14. — ^uvruv, of the living) The living and those, who are made alive again, triumph with their living Redeemer, their Kinsman (Heb. Goel.) The living God is the God of the living, Matt. xxii. 32. Christ, who lives again, is Lord of those who are brought to life again. Paul places here, ver. 7, 8, this life before death , and, in ver. 9, by gradation, after death , that life , as ch. viii. 38, with which comp, ver. 34. Christ , says he, died , that he might have dominion over the dying , Christ revived , that He might have dominion over the living. Christ has died , therefore death (the act or rather the passive suffering of dying and the state of death) will not separate us from Him. Christ has risen again , therefore the life (of the world to come) will not separate us from Him; hence the notion of2 the insensibility of the soul during the whole night , whilst the body is in the grave, is set aside by the dominion of Christ over the dead ; and against this doctrine solid arguments are derived from the appearance of Moses and Elias, Matt. xvii. 3, as also from the resurrection of the saints, Matt, xxvii. 52, 53 ; and from the hope of Paul, etc., Phil. i. 23 ; 2 Cor. v. 8 ; Heb. xii. 23. To these we may add 66 the fifth seal,” Rev. vi. 9, note, and the o^koi, multitudes of the blessed, Rev. vii. and xiv., etc. The apostles themselves declined, 1 Cor. v. 12, to judge 66 those that are with- out.” The state of deserving [the state in which men are capable of deserts] (taking the word in a large sense on both sides [in a good and a bad sense]) is doubtless not extended beyond this present life. The condition of man for all eternity depends on [his state at] the moment of death, although without man’s co-operation, different degrees may exist. Comp. Luke xvi. 9, 22, 25; John ix. 4 (comp. Ecc. ix. 10) ; Gal. vi. 10 ; 2 Tim.
1 ABC Memph. Syr. later, read dir eOoirer xccl e^yaer. But G g, Vulg. and Origen, dared u.rer kou dreary ; for which last Fulgentius and the Fuld. MS. of Vulg. corrected by Victor, have dre^yaer. D(A)/ Iren, have e^yaer Kctl daredctrer jcetl dreary. Rec. Text, dor ed. k. dreary , k. dre^yaer. — Ed.
2 'pvxoKctrrvxi'oir.