siders us as His own offspring : DHT*, vaidia (soboles), offspring, are synonymous. Comp. Ps. xxii. 31 ; Is. liii. 10. — s/s do^av, unto glory) This glory consists in this very circumstance, that they are sons, and are treated as sons ; Rom. viii. 21. Examine John xvii. 10, 22, and that whole prayer ; and comp. ver. 7 of this second chapter. Glory and holiness, bringing unto glory and sanctification, have a very closely connected meaning ; ver. 11. — Tr{$ Gurypfas auruv, of their salvation) This word presupposes destruction ; and that we might be delivered from it, Christ must suffer. Ao'ga, glory, follows salvation, in the style of Paul,1 2 Tim. ii. 10, note. — rsXg/wera/, to make perfect, to consummate) Bringing to the end of troubles, and to the goal full of glory, ch. v. 9, is included in this word. A metaphor derived from the contests in the public games. For rgXs/oDo^a/, r&X&iog, re\eio- rq$, rzXsluais, rsXsiurfc, regarding Christ and Christians, are fre quent in this epistle. This perfecting by sufferings includes two points : I. The glory of Christ, inasmuch as all things are sub jected to Him, now that He has been made perfect. II. His pre vious sufferings. He presently afterwards treats directly of His sufferings, ver. 11-18, although he has slightly referred to them in the preceding part of the chapter. He has put the discussion concerning Glory in this very passage first, for the pur pose of sharpening (giving the more point to) his exhortation, and meeting beforehand the scandal attached to His suffering and death. But he has interwoven a fuller consideration of both points with the following discussion respecting the Priesthood, which is brought forward at ver. 17. And indeed, as regards His Sufferings, the fact is evident (openly stated) : but he describes the Glory (by implication), while he mentions, at convenient places, that Jesus was consummated or made perfect, that He is in heaven, that He is made higher than the heavens, that He sits at the right hand of God, that He will be seen a second time, that His enemies will be made His footstool : in this verse, and ch. iv. 14, v. 9, vii. 26, 28, viii. 1, 2, ix. 24, 28, x. 12, 13, xii. 2.
11. Tap, for) The closest relationship was the reason why it was becoming that Jesus should not be made perfect (consum-
1 Note once for all — the frequent Italicising of Paul's name in such cases, is to show that his style accords with that of the writer of this Epistle : a proof that Paul was the writer. — ED.