this reading, nor the interpretation which has been here pro posed by us ; yet it is open to the reader to consider the matter more fully. La Croze, lib. iii., de Christianismo Indico, c. 3, § 64, shows the consistency (unanimous agreement) of the Syriac copies in joining both readings. — ygu<njra/, might taste) The reality of death is implied in this phrase, as everywhere else ; and here, as we have said, at the same time the shortness (rb Ppaw) of its duration, for denoting which the gen. Qavdrov is well fitted ; comp. ch. vi. 4, note. To taste a part of death is one thing ; a part or the shortness of the time, in which the whole of death is tasted, is another.1 Matt. xvi. 28 does not present any objection to the signification of shortness of duration ; for there the expression is negative, as in Luke xiv. 24. Moreover, Ps. xxxiv. (8) 9, gives weight to this view, ygu<raer0g xa/ 7&«, i.e. Only taste and you will see ; otherwise taste would not be put before sight.
10. "Eirpsire, it became) So Ps. viii. 2 (1), "pin, LXX., i\ //,5/a- sid ffov, " Thy becoming — magnificence (to which it be came here alludes) is set above the heavens." Moreover (for the rest) in the whole of this verse 10, the proposition, which in verses 8, 9, was clothed in the words of the same psalm, is now set forth in words more nearly accommodated to the purpose
the apostle ; but with this difference, that ver. 8, 9, treat more expressly of glory, (taken) from what goes before, ver. 7 ; whereas ver. 10 treats more expressly of His sufferings, thereby preparing us for the transition to what follows. The predicate of the proposition is, It became Him, on account of whom all things, and by whom all things exist : The subject follows, to make perfect, or consummate, through sufferings the Captain of their salvation, who thereby brings many sons to glory? 'Ayayovra. might be resolved into 'iva ayayuv rsXttuffy. But this is the con struction, ayayovra, rbv apw/bv, that the first Leader or Captain of salvation may be also the One bringing unto glory. 'Apwyb$ is
1 It is the latter, not the former, that is true of Jesus ; for He tasted the whole of death, though its duration was short. — ED.
2 Or, perhaps, Beng. takes retetaaeti thus : that the Captain of their sal vation, in bringing (ocyotyovTot) many sons to glory , should make consumma tion (viz. of His own work and glory, and so of theirs) through His suffer ings. Heb. xii. 2 favours this. — ED.