perish) There is the same word at Luke v. 37 ; James i. 11 ; 1 Pet. i. 7 ; 2 Pet. iii. 6.
12. 'AXXaJg/s, Thou slialt change. — dXXay^ffovra/, they shall be changed) Many read for <xXXaJg/g, k^J^ng : but there is the one verb *pn twice in the Hebrew, which the LXX. often translate a\Xdffau, never by sX/Vtfw.1 — 6 avToi) Kin, the same, never another (anything different), without old age and change. See Hiller, Onom., p. 71, 262. So 1 Sam. ii. 10 mif, LXX. Auro's.
13. As, but) An Epitasis. [See Append.]
14. Hoarse, all) although distinguished into various orders by various names, implying even some dominion : Eph. i. 21. — heiroup'yixu — atfotfTsXXc/^si'a, who minister — who are sent) They minister before God [are employed in praises. — V. g.] ; are sent, viz. abroad, to men [in order that they may execute the com mandments of GOD concerning other created things. — V. g.] Both are opposed to sitting at the right hand. Comp. Luke i. 19. — rout; {AsXXovrag xXripovo/AsTv, those who shall receive the inherit ance of) i.e. the elect, and them who believe or who are about to believe. A sweet periphrasis. — rfwr^/av, salvation) from so many and so great dangers.
1. AS?) Elsewhere he uses the verb opg/As/v, to owe ; here dsT, it behoves. The former implies obligation ; the latter urgent danger, ver. 3. Now the discourse is verging towards exhorta tion, point by point corresponding to the preceding chapter,
1 It must be observed, however, that the marg. of the 2d Ed., differing from the larger Ed., does not assign a greater value to the reading «XA«|£^ than to lA/|g/£. Umwenden, which is read in the Germ. Vers., accords with this. Therefore the latter views of Bengel are not refuted but confirmed by the decision which Ernesti gives, Bibl. th., T. vi., p. 6. But the same learned man, T. v., p. 216, reminds us that «AA«|-s/f and g?\./!g/f, in the idiom found in Hebraizing Greek, are the same as, Thou shalt abolish, shalt reduce to nothing. Let them so consider who can. — E. B
AB and the oldest MS. of Vulg. Amiat. have faf&is. D(A) corrected,/, and Victor's Vulg., have «AA#fs/c. — ED.