antithesis to God, Antichrist to Christ. Wherefore Belial as being opposed to Christ, seems here also to denote all manner of Antichristian uncleanness.
16. ’Suyxardfatfig) LXX. Ex. xxiii. 1 : ov <tvyxctradi]<fr\ (JjZtcl too
ddiKovy thou shalt not agree with the wicked. — [xe r« s /duXwv, with idols) He does not say, /Agra mou e/dwXuv, with the temple of idols (although the Syriac version supplies with the temple ), for idols do not dwell in their worshippers. — u/as%, ye) The promises, made to Israel, belong also to us. — evoixfi<rw — Xaog, I will dwell in them — my people) Lev. xxvi. 11, 12, LXX. rr\v 6xr\vr,v fiov ev £//a Tv
— xai s/ATrs^/Trar^tfw ev v/n7v, xai gVo/z-a/ bfiuv ©sog, xai ujueTg sffs d&e /a oi Xaog : I will set my tabernacle among you — and I will walk among you , and I will be your God , and ye shall be my people. Paul quotes a single verse, he wishes the whole paragraph to be con- sidered as repeated. — g/A-rgf/crar^tfw, I will walk among [in]) / will dwell signifies the continuance of the Divine presence ; I will walk , its operation. The subject of God’s gracious dwelling in the soul and body of the saints may be explained from its contrary, viz., the subject of [the question concerning] spiritual and bodily [demoniacal] possession ; as every dispensation of evil and good may be compared together according to their opposite aspects [principles]. — sVo/Aa/, I will be) The sum of the Divine covenant, Ex. vi. 7; Heb. viii. 10. — ©go$* Xaog, their God : my people) There is a gradation, [here ©g bg ; but in ver. 18, stg vrarepa] in the rela- tion of a father ; [again here Xaog ; but s/g u/oi)g] in the relation of sons , ver. 18 ; Rev. xxi. 3, 7 ; Jer. xxxi. 1, 9.
17. ’E %eX6ere — fiij artrecQe) Is. lii. 11, dcroVr?)rg, d<Ko<5ry\re, e^eXQere
exeTkv, xai dxa6dpro\j /a y\ e^eX6ere ex fj>eco\) abrr\g, d<pop/C07jre,
x.r.X. — ex fiecov avruv, from the midst of them) from the Gentiles. — X'eyei K vp/og, saith the Lord) The additional epithet follows [in ver. 18, augmenting the force of the words by Epitasis (See Append.)], the Lord Almighty. — uxuQaprov , unclean) The mascu- line, Is. lii. 11, 1 : comp. Is. lxv. 5. To this may be referred, let us cleanse ourselves , ch. vii. 1. — /aj} avreaOe, touch not) To see, when it is necessary, does not always defile : Acts xi. 6 ; to touch is more polluting. — eivde^o/joai, I will receive you \witlvin\ to me) as into a family or home [Comp. ch. v. 1-10. — V. g.] We are out of doors, but we are admitted within. The clause, Come out from , etc., corresponds to this. God is in the saints, ver. 16,