ldia Xovrpou iraXfyyevsffias xai avaxcuvufcuz nvg-^aarog ' Aytov, by the ishing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost) The renewing is immediately construed with by ; for as washing and regeneration, so renewing and Pie shed on us, are closely connected. Two things are mentioned : the washing of regeneration, which is a periphrasis for baptism into Christ ; and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. Comp. Heb. ii. 4, note. For in both places the benefits are praised, which have come to us by Christ and by the Holy Spirit. So it is called the work of divine grace, not only in respect of individuals, but in respect of the very abundant economy of the New Testament. This regeneration and renewing takes away all the death and the old state, under which we so wretchedly lay, and which is described, ver. 3 : 2 Cor. v. 17.
6. Ou) Ilvsvparos 'Ay/'ou. — 5/«, through) This depends on He saved, etc., ver. 5 ; as the conjugates saved and Saviour prove. [Through Jesus our Saviour is not to be connected, as in Engl. Vers., with He shed on us.~]
7. "iva, that) This depends on He saved. — dixaiud'evreg, being justified) For formerly we were without righteousness, ver. 5. — sxfivov, His) God's, ver. 4, 5. sKttiog, He, or that person, points often to something remote. That which is more remote (as expressed by Ixs/tos) is estimated from the position of the words, not exactly from the thought itself. The grace of God is an or dinary phrase ; and it is of that grace that the kindness and love to men have appeared, to which all things are here attributed. God is supremely good, we are exceedingly evil. — %ap/r/, by grace) An antithesis to works. — xar sXmfia, according to the hope) which we did not formerly possess. [This hope truly softens the mind, 1 Pet. iii. 9. — V. g.] — &%$, of life) Construed with heirs.
8. n/<rro$, faithful) The reference is to what goes before. — nip} rovTuv, concerning these things) not concerning things frivolous : 1 Tim. i. 7, at the end. — ppovT/£w<r/, that they be careful) no longer foolish, ver. 3. [Diligence is necessary. — V. g.] — xaXa, good) entirely and substantially so. The antithesis is, vain, in the next verse. — upsXipa, profitable) The antithesis is, unprofitable, ibid.
ificig, He saved us) Christianity itself, as opposed to for mer misery (ver. 3), brings a most real and present, salvation. — V. g.