perantes), in the Vulgate and Syriac Version, is worthy of con sideration, and illustrates its signification. In this way r, avaXywia, (insensibility) and r\ awyvuffig (despair) are conjointly noted by Chrysostom, Homil. vi.,on Heb.iii. 13. But the very word a<xa\ye?v Cicero seems to paraphrase, lib. ii. famil. Ep. 16, when he says, " Diuturna DESPERATIONE rerum obduruisse animum ad DOLOEEM novum," that by long-continued DESPAIR at existing circumstances the mind has become hardened to new PAIN. There fore aKuhysTv is more than to despair. Raphelius has given a beautiful disquisition on this word out of Polybius, where, of two examples ascribed to Polybius by Suidas,the one exists in the same wrords in Xiphilinus. — saurovs 7ra/?!5axai',they gave themselves over) of their own accord, willingly. — cracks, of all) affsXytia, lascivious- ness, the species ; ajiaQapria, impurity, the genus. Those who are occupied with these works of the flesh, as being hurried away (seized) with the heated desire of material objects, fall also into greediness [-TAsovsg/a, avarice, covetousness] ; and gain made by unchastity was frequent among the Gentiles.
20. 'l>g% dz ov% ovrag epafare rbv Xpiffrbv, but you have not so learned Christ) The same form of expression is found at Deut. xviii. 14, 15, GOI ds OL»^/ ovruc sduxe Kvpiog o ©g&j ffov irpopqrqv — auroD axovctffQe. Christ is one,1 says Paul (comp. 2 Cor. xi. 4) ; as then you have heard Him, i.e. so you ought (in conduct) to represent (copy) Him. As [ver. 21, xa6us sffriv aXrjfaia b rti Tjj<roD], which afterwards occurs, is to be referred to [ye have] not so [ver. 20] ; not so is opposed to uncleanness, ver. 19 ; if so be that, etc., to vanity, ver. 17, 18. — rbv Xpiffrlv, Christ) He uses the name Jesus, more expressly denominating the Lord, in the following verse. Jesus, most perfectly and brilliantly completed the idea of Christ.
2 1 . Efys, if so be that [or rather as the Indie, follows, Since, seeing that ye have heard]) The particle does not diminish, but increases the strength of the admonition. — avrbv, Him) This word, and in [Engl. Vers. by] Him, which presently occurs, are brought in here from the following clause : as you, Gal. iv. 11. To hear Christ has a fuller meaning than to hoar of Christ. — ^xou<rarg, ye
1 i.e. If there were some other Christ, whom you could serve and yet obey your lusts, ye might walk still as in past times. But there is only one Christ, and He, one that requireth holiness, 2 Cor. xi. 4. — ED.