also [the source of] real enjoyment, in the second. So sv r& Xiysiv, in that He saith, ch. viii. 13. — u$ sv rSj <7rapa,<mxpaff{A£>, as in the Provocation) rO'HDiD ; it is taken as a proper name, with its signification.
16. Tfveg, who) Many write rtvtg, some; but the argument of the apostle is thus rendered somewhat feeble : rmg, dXX5 oy ndvres, some-) but not ally is rather a general expression concerning the Provocation, ch. iv. 6 ; Ex. xvii. 2. Ttvzg is plainly interro gative, as ch. i. 5, 13, and at the same time a very weighty Anaphora,1 rives, riai, «•/<», ver. 16, 17, 18 ; and there are brought under our notice in these three verses, 1. The begin ning of the Provocation, soon after the departure from Egypt ; 2. The forty troublesome years in the wilderness ; 3. The re fusal of the entrance into the land of rest. 'AXX' ou is used, ver. 16, as si w, ver. 18 ; for neither is properly interrogative, but both stand under the interrogative word, rives. That the power of the particle may be more clearly seen, suppose some one to say, rjffav avOpwTToi TrapaKixpaivovreg, aXX' ov% ovroi 01 s^sXtjovrsg, There were men who provoked, but not those that went out. The apostle denies that, and therefore says, rives %ffav, «XX? oO^ euro/ ; who were they, but these ? — i.e. these were the very persons. There are similar particles in Luke, rig, «XX' ovyj, xvii. 7, 8 ; and in Paul, rig, j) ov^i xal, x.r.X., 1 Thess. ii. 19. lldvrsg, in this passage, is none else but, merely those, a meaning of the word tag which Ea- phelius, at James i. 17, beautifully explains, ex Ariano. Germ. : Diejenige, die eine Erbitterung angericlitet haben, wer waren sie ? es warenlauter solche Leute, die von Egypten ausgegangen waren dureh Mosen. These are not in this passage said to have been led out, but to have come out. They had already the pledge of Divine assistance, and had followed the Divine guidance ; but their future progress did not correspond to that excellent begin ning (comp. ver. 14). Chrysostom evidently reads r'mg : rivwv (ts/Avrirai tpqffi ffxXrjpwQ'svruv ; who, says he, have been mentioned as being hardened ; where tfxXq/wlfmg (comp. ver. 15) are the same as ffapa'Tr/xpdvavreg. — axovffavrsg, after having heard) ver. 15. — vapevfapavav, provoked) the Lord, namely, by chiding with Moses, Ex. xvii. 2. — d/£ Mwutflws, by Moses) whose words, when they heard them, they should have obeyed.
1 The frequent repetition of the same word in beginnings. — ED.