<pops<fujuj ev, let us bear , and yet in the way of promise.1 The sub- junctive renders the expression modal and conciliatory, by which Paul (comp. ver. 53, must ) expresses the divine appointment and faith assenting to it. Comp, the subjunctive James iv. 13, 15, 'Topivtfuj/AsQa, x.r.X. Pater copies have made it, (popecoju, ev ; and there is the same variety in the copies of Origen against Celsus, as Sam. Battier observes in Biblioth. Brem., Class vi., p. 102, etc., who approves of the reading <popt<rufie v out of Maximus, ire pi ay unrig.
50. 2 ap% xa l af/xa, flesh and blood) An abstract phrase, [mean- ing man , as far as the circulation of the blood quickens his flesh. — V. g.] as <pdopu , corruption. The one is applied to those, who live in the world, the other to the dead. Both of these must become altogether different from what they have been previously. The spirit extracted from the dregs of wine does not so much differ from them, as the glorified man from the mortal man. — (3u<n\e/av Qsou, the kingdom of God) which is altogether spiritual, and in no respect merely animal [natural]. A great change must intervene, until man is made fit for that kingdom. — ou Buv- avrai) cannot) This is a Syllepsis2 3 of number, for it denotes the multitude of those, who are flesh and blood. — ouds — zXripovofieT, nor — obtains by inheritance) It is not said, cannot receive by in- heritance. Flesh and blood are farther distant [from the inherit- ance], than corruption itself ; and it is evident from its very nature, that corruption cannot obtain this inheritance, although it is certainly the way to incorruptibility , ver. 36. The meaning of the present may be gathered from ver. 52 at the beginning.
51. 'T/4/v, you) Do not suppose, that you know all things. — X&yu, I say) prophetically : xiii. 2 : 1 Thess. iv. 15. — ndvrzg f£ev ov KoifiriOriffofAedciy navrsg Be dXXayrjtfo/jjeda^ we shall not all sleep , but we shall all be changed) The Latins read with general consent ; u Omnes quidem resurgemus, sed non omnes immutabimur,”
1 Tisch. reads (popeaopcsv with B (judging from silence) both Syr. Versions. But Lachm. as Beng., (pogeacopoet/ with ACD(A)Gr/^r Vulg. Orig. 1,5915c, 2,265, Iren. Cypr. Hilar. — Ed.
2 See App. The sing, subject had gone before. But the plural was mentally intended. — Ed.
3 So D(A) corrected later, d /Hilary 91,315, and Latin MSS. in Jerome 1,810c, read nocureg oivcctrTYiaropcsQu, ov vreg Be d’hXotyvjaopoidu.. — Ed.