Hebrews Ii. 9. 357

Christ tasted death for every one except God. This sentence is to be explained by its members. I.) Ilavrog, as the KUVTM, occur ring five times in ver. 8, 10, is neuter, which is acknowledged by Orig. Theod. Ambros., quoted in Estius ; for in the mascu line it is wont to be plural, virep vdvruv, 2 Cor. v. 1 5 ; 1 Tim. ii. 6 : and the plural, ifavruv and -/raff/, is generally masc., some times neuter ; but -ravroj, -yam, put without a substantive or a participle, are always neut. [but Engl. Yers. " for every man"~\. See above, at 2 Cor. xi. 6 ; Mark ix. 49. The apostle shows the glory of Christ from the eighth Psalm, and especially from the clause, Thou hast put «, everything, under His feet ; and he supplies the emphasis of the singular number (He put every thing), which is contained in that significant syllable io, and was omitted by the LXX. transl., when he says, and only in this place, which is the leading strength (sinew) of his argument, vavr6$. For navrbg, neut., without the article, is good Greek, since it is used by Hesiod, nXsov r,^iffv v&vroc, the half (obtained by fair means) is more than the whole (obtained unfairly). This flrav, this all, to which obdev, nothing, likewise in the neuter, is opposed, ver. 8, and in which all, in the masc., are included, John iii. 35, 36, chiefly comprehends angels, than whom Christ had been made a little (or for a little) lower ; and thus the Pro tasis and Apodosis correspond to each other, We do not yet see all things subject to Him, but yet that for which Pie tasted death is ALL (<rav), i Omne.' II.) To taste death, implies the reality, and yet in this place also the shortness, of death ; as Chrysostom, Sedulius, Haymo, Flacius, on this passage, acknowledge. III.) Hence we at length gather the meaning of faep, for all (<rravrb$, omni) ; Germ, wn alles, not fur alle : vvrep denotes here the thing to be obtained, as in John xi. 4 ; 2 Cor. i. 6, xii. 8, 19 ; 2 Thess. i. 5. He tasted death for all (omni), that He might claim all (' omne') for Himself, that He might obtain power over all things : or in other words, for this, that what was written might be fulfilled to Him, Thou hast put ALL (OMNE) under His feet. IV.) That All has a very manifest and proper exception. Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 27, treating of the same psalm, the same verse, and the same word, io, all, adds, it is manifest that He is excepted, who put all things under Him. The same exception therefore is made in this place, %upit 0«o.D imp