knoweth the things of a man ?) The Alexandrian MS. and it alone omits ’Avfy&irw, and yet Artem. Part I. cap. 47 desires it to be marked with a stroke as spurious.1 But this variety of cases, viz. among , or of men, of man, of a man, is extremely appropriate to the purpose of the apostle here ; for he notices the similarity of nature, which appears to give men the mutual knowledge of each other’s feelings as men, and yet does not give it ; how much less will any one know God without the Spirit of God ? — rd rob uiOpunov, the things of a man), the things that are within him. — r'o cmD/xa rob avOpunov, the spirit of that man). The Article r'o evidently denotes the spirit peculiar to man, not that entering into him from any other quarter. — r'o h abrGi, which is in him) The criterion of truth, the conscious nature in man (conscience). — obbiig) not one, of all outside of [excepting] God. Not even his fellow-man knows a man ; God is One alone, [having no fellow] and known to Himself alone. — r'o <mD/xa, the Spirit) The Godhead cannot be separated from the Spirit of God, as man- hood cannot be separated from the spirit of man.
12. To ‘Trviv/jLa rob x6<r/j,ou, the spirit of the world) Eph. ii. 2. — IXafiogev) The spirit of the world is not received; but they are always under its influence, who are of the wrorld. We have re- ceived the Spirit of God. — lx, from [God]) an antithesis to in \_him, man], ver. 11.
13. Ka/', also) Thus the phrases, we might know and we speak are joined. — bibuxroXg, taught) consisting of doctrine and instruc- tion. The word cop lag with Xoyotg is not to be resolved into an epithet ; wisdom is the gushing fountain of words. — dXX’ ev, hut in) an immediate antithesis ; nor can it be said, that the apostles compared merely the natural power of speech, as distinguished on the one hand from art, and on the other, from the Spirit. — btbaxro7g) bibayf2 by the teaching, which the Holy Spirit3 fur-
1 BCD (A) Gfg Vulg. Orig. 1, 197 a \ 524 a ; 3, 5715; Hilary, read d»6pa- nm. A and Orig. 2, 644c, omit it. — Ed.
2 The Germ. Ver. agrees to this reading, although the Greek editions have left the matter undecided. — E. B.
3 The Germ. Vers., with the margin of Ed. 2, approves of the omission of the adjective, ay/ov, more distinctly than the margin of the older edition. — E. B.
A iboixrolg is the reading of ABCD(A)G Orig. (B, according to Bartolocci,