but without improvement. — rd spya pw9 my works) most glorious in affording help, partly also in executing vengeance. — naffap- dxovra err), forty years) This is joined with vpoau^&iffa in the LXX. and in the Hebrew, arid below ver. 17. At the same time the people both sawthe PVD, work of GOD, and offended GOD, until they filled up the full measure of their guilt. Here it is joined with g/8ov, they saw ; and therefore the hard heart of the people is implied. 10. A/o, wherefore) This particle is not in the Hebrew, nor in the LXX. — irpoauxdHta) A word of very frequent occurrence in the LXX., but scarcely to be met with anywhere else. Eustathius has o%&o$ (or o%^, in general a high place ; in particular, a bank): irapa rb £%^/v, i.e. ^£%£/i>, to be high, to be prominent. It denotes rowxbv sKavdarqpa, a local eminence : thence b^dsu and o^^w, applied to the mind, signifies / am roused, — Trpogu^diffa, I was dis pleased with them, so that they should not enter into the land, when they wished too late to do so. The phrase, to walk con trary, Lev. xxvi. 24, 28, is closely connected with it. — r5j ysvsy Jxg/v»j) exeivfo with that, has the meaning of removal and aliena tion ;* Heb. "rilS absolutely, with the same meaning. — xal eJva, and I said) I declared with my lips the displeasure o/my soul. Observe the subsequent gradation : first displeasure with those who sinned made Him say ; then anger, more severe than that displeasure, viz. towards those who did not believe, made him swear; comp. ver. 17, 18. The first temptation, Ex. xvii., was presently the cause why God was grieved or displeased. The complaint regarding the erring of their heart, then anger (wrath) and the oath followed. So the displeasure and anger, the complaint and the oath, respectively, are the better distinguished. — avroi, they) DH in Heb. is repeated with great force. The accents [in the Hebrew] here begin the hemistich of this clause. There fore it is not included under sTirov, I said, but this is the meaning : they perceived that I was displeased with them ; auro/ ds, and yet they, the same persons, did not a whit the more wish to know My ways. There is a similar antithesis, they and /, ch. viii. 9 ;
1 The margin of both Ed. prefers the reading THVTV), and the Germ. Vers. follows it. Therefore the explanation of the pronoun eyeing is at least hypothetical.— E. B.
*E«g/»# is the reading of C. and Rec. Text. But Tavry is read by ABD(A) corrected and Vulg.— ED.