358 Hebrews Ii. 9.

ally but God) is subject to Christ : xupi$ is used to express an exception. So Epiphanius, 6/d Kavrbg, %wp/g ^svrjjxotfrTjj, at all times except Pentecost : ligeres. Ixxv. Thomas Magister writes, rb crX^v xai rb Jxrog, TO %upig drjXouffi ; %w/>/£ is explained by trt^ and sxrbg, except. Theodoritus acknowledges that %«p/s in this passage expresses an exception ; and the parallelism of the psalm shows us what the exception is. And the exception itself very significantly, and yet, lest the discourse should be inter rupted, very briefly, points out the vast extent of the things subject to Christ, which are absolutely all but God; and the exception is properly put before the subject, from which the exception is made. The same clause, if %a/?/r/, by grace, be re tained, will be thus explained : that by the grace of GOD He might taste death for everything. By the grace of GOD in regard to us, Gal. ii. 21 ; Rom. v. 8, and to Jesus Himself. His enemies thought that Jesus suffered and died in consequence of the wrath of GOD, Ps. xxii. 8, 9, Ixix. 27 ; Isa. liii. 4 ; John xix. 7. But it was altogether by the grace of God, that He suffered and died, of which grace the gift is honour and glory : Phil. ii. 9, I%a^/Varo, " God hath given Him," etc. ; Luke ii. 40, 52 ; Eom. v. 15. And this noun, %a/?/r/, expresses the same idea as the verbs, /&//*- vfaxri) £V/0K£fiT;/j, rememberest (" art mindful"), visitest, ver. 6, from that eighth Psalm. In this interpretation, wlp vavrbg might be equivalent to for all (men), Germ, fur alle, so far as the preposition is concerned, but the neuter, ^ravroc, is an objec tion [therefore it must be for everything : in order that everything may be subject to Him]. We now inquire which reading is genuine. I am not ignorant that x&pin is more favourably received than %w/?/g, and I would be disposed, without any trouble, to dismiss the latter and adopt the former. But when the question concerns the word of GOD, even one little word of GOD, we ought to settle nothing merely to gain time. The over-officiousness of the transcribers, which seeks after all things plain, more easily changed %upl$ into %a/>/*v, than %dpin into y^pts ; and yet %&>?}$ remains in ancient, numerous, and import ant documents. The list is given in App. Grit. To them may be added the book of the Abbot Anastasius against the Jews, who flourished in Palestine in the eighth century, directly exhi biting this reading. Nor will any one, I hope, call in question