e/duXot ra a (puva big ccv iiysdQs aftaybpjzvot) The analysis of these words will he easy, if we only keep hold of this thread of con- nection, on vjy.6 <rOs, that you were led; so that tjysgde is not to be regarded as a mere accessory proposition [Syncategorema ; see Append.], but the predicate itself ; comp. Eph. ii. 12 ; where Gentiles and Gentilism are likewise distinguished in the enun- ciation. For, instead of bn or wg, there is said conjointly ug on, Germ, wie dass (as or how that ), and bn ug, that as : and that too with another word interposed, as in Xiphilimus, in his Epi- tome of Dion, Xs^b'sv avru, bn upu ug ’ AXs^avdpog s\Qwv avr'ov d/a- ds^srai, it being told to him, that (on) when ( wr) Alexander comes , he will succeed him : or even with a longer parenthesis, as in Xenophon, evruvQa yvovrsg oj p,avnvs?g wg, si /ajj airoxpo{jffovru,i avroug, bn., x.r.X., here the soothsayers knowing, unless they shall repel them , how that , etc. : therefore that is doubled in Greek as n DN in Hebrew, Gen. xvii. 17, supplying I say. Furthermore civ is joined with the verb j}ys<f6s, as we have also in Xenophon xaipbg Ss ypu-^/ai ug civ hpQbrura exarspw yjp&ro, I take the opportunity of stating how he should most suitably treat either of these (the spirited or dull horse) ; where Devarius (who has suggested to us both of these quotations from Xenophon) shows that civ in the distribution of the construction is joined potentially to the verb XPti70' Therefore the principal meaning will remain, if ug civ be entirely put aside by itself (parenthetically) in the construction, as in 2 Cor. x. 9 \jva [ir\ So^oj ug uv IxcpofisTv vpag'j, where it signifies as if ; and so it might be taken in this passage : nor even is av easily construed with an indicative, such as ijysffOe is. Moreover in Y\ysdk w7rayb[jjsvoi, the passive is construed with the middle, the simple with the compound ; you were led and led away, you gave yourselves up to any guidance whatever. The Scholium of Chrysostom amounts almost to this [is much the same as this] : though that Scholium has been censured by later writers with- out a cause ; o’ibccrs, bn "E XkY[vsg v^n, vug unrr\yscQz, sXxopsvoi roVg, ye know , when ye were Greeks, how you were led, being at that time drawn away. Add Castellio. ucpuva, dumb, a proper epithet ; comp. ver. 3, you when blind went to the dumb; you dumb [unable to speak as you ought, by the Spirit of God, ver. 3], to the blind.
3. A ih, icherefore) He infers this thesis, that spiritual things are with all Christians, and with [in the possession of] them