cussed at ver. 6, 7. — sis rb xarafyudqvat) that you may be counted ivorthy) This clause is connected (coheres) with ye endure. — •JTrsp i}$} for which. The suffering (tfd<r%ers) makes them worthy of the kingdom.
6. Uapa ©sf), with God) Although good and bad men do not estimate the injuries done by the latter, and the sufferings endured by the former, as of so great importance. — QMfSovaiv — 6Xtyiv, affliction [tribulation] — to them that afflict [trouble]) The lex talionis [compensation in kind]. To this refer ver. 8, 9.
7. K«/ U/A/V, and to you) To this refer ver. 10, 11. — ro/& QXif3ovfAevoi$j who are afflicted) In the middle voice, who endure affliction; comp. ver. 4, at the end. — avsoiv, rest) 6\i«\ng9 affliction, and avs(H$, rest, are opposed to each other with great propriety, 2 Cor. vii. 5, viii. 13. Moreover rest includes also abundance of good things, ver. 10. — [M& qpiuv) with us, i.e. with the saints of Israel, ver. 10, note. Comp. 1 Thess. ii. 14. — pir ayy&Xuv dwapecas, with angels of might, mighty angels) The angels serve Christ in the putting forth of His power.
8. *Ev vvpi pXoybg) Others read sv pXoy/ Kvpbg.1 The same variety occurs, Acts vii. 30 : sv 9X07; vvpbg, LXX., Is. Ixvi. 15. — roTg pn sidoti &sbv) to those who are living in heathen ignorance of God, 1 Thess. iv. 5 ; Ps. Ixxix. 6. So Job xviii. 21, ^ J>T «£, ruv fty eldoruv rbv Kvpiov, of those2 ivho know not the Lord. — &% wraxovovffi, who do not obey) chiefly by the Jews, to whom the Gospel concerning Christ* had been preached.
9. 'A-TTO, from) It is & judicial procedure from the Divine pre sence itself, that will inflict punishment upon them. "ODD, from the face. Devils will not be the tormentors ; for even in this life bad men are not punished by devils, but rather by good angels : and in Ps. Ixxviii. 49, the phrase, angels of (bringing) evil,
1 Lachm. reads Iv @Aoyi vvpos with BD(A)G<9' Vulg., Iren. 273, 265. Tisch. reads Iv irvpl cpAoyoV with A/ and Rec. Text. — ED.
2 The Hebrew is sing., of him that knoweth not God. — TR.
3 It is considered, however, by the margin of the 2d Ed., that the name of Christ should rather be omitted in this verse, and therefore the Germ. Vers. has rejected it. — E. B.
BD(A) omit XjO/<7To£, and so Tisch. But AG/</ Vulg., Iren. 265, and Rec. Text, support it. Lachm. therefore retains it, but in brackets. —En