1 The Gnomon here agrees with the 2d Ed. and the Germ. Vers., having changed the decision of the older Ed., which had given the preference to the reading ov. — E. B.
O5 is the reading of ABC and Rec. Text ; 6V of D(A) corrected, / Vulg. Lucif. — ED.
if we retain our confidence. There is an expression of Paul's very similar. Col. i. 23, note. — TTJV nappriffiav) A word of frequent occurrence in this epistle: ffapfaffia, ch. iv. 16, x. 19, 35; and £, ch. vi. 11, 18, vii. 19, x. 23, in like manner ffiav, confidence, viz. towards GOD : glorying, with respect to enemies. — xardcxupsv, if ive liold fast) So ver. 14 ; ch. x. 23. So xparefi, iv. 14, vi. 18.
7. A/o, wherefore) A choice inference, and the strength of this whole passage. Jesus is Kutrbg, faithful : be not ye a^/cro/, unfaithful, ver. 2, 12. — l \tyei rb Tlvsvpa rb'Ayiov, the Holy Ghost saith) So ch. ix. 8, X. 15. — ffqptpov — rtffffapaxovra try dtb
— xa/ s/Va, dsi) Ps. xcv. 7, at the end ; LXX., ffq/tspov —
'?rpoffu)^diffa. The word a^a^oc, to-day, is an expression of David's, and is opposed to that day, which was in the time of Moses, ver. 8. — lav, if) If you will obediently hear His voice. Under this hearing, there is included any sort of hearing what ever, ver. 16, ch. iv. 2. The force of this clause (hemistich) is joined in the Hebrew with what goes before, and thence it re dounds upon what follows. — pwv5j$, voice) which is full of grace, in these words of the prophet, to be heard on that very account.
8. Tlapairr/ipatf/Ati — T?/pa<r/AoD, in the provocation — in the tempta tion) By Chiasmus, in ver. 9, as compared with ver. 8, tempta tion is first treated, then provocation ; vtrepov nportpov &(3paidbv, as Franc. Junius says, when he observed the same figure occur ring several times in this epistle. Both refer to the History, Ex. xvii. 7, as the first offence ; comp. below ver. 16, they that came (went) out. The first offence ought to be guarded against ; for more very easily spring up from it, and the first is wont to be most severely reproved. — xara, according to) that is, as in the day. So the Hebrew text, — kv rr\ spypu, in the wilderness) the theatre of very great events.
9. o5) viz. Ktipaff/Aov, Attic for $. — stfipaffav Mi, they tempted Me) [to try] wrhether I was able or willing. — o/ var'spes v^uv, your fathers) whose hardness of heart is very often mentioned. Therefore the authority of the ancients is not conclusive. — sdoKt^affav, proved) i.e. searched out, put Me to the test ; not ap proved. Weigh well what follows. — sTdov, they saw) evidently,
?, even as) The Apodosis is at ver. 12. — Not. Grit.