word, ib., and is joined with threatening, ver. 3. For Christ, the hypostatic Word, is not said to be a sword, but to have a sword (comp. Jos. v. 13, to which passage this passage, relating to Joshua, ver. 8, seems also to refer) ; nor is He called xpinxbc, judicial, but xp/rfo, the Judge. The appellation of Sword, given to God, Deut. xxxiii. 29, is suitable to the song, not to the ordinary style of epistolary writing. — ropuTepos) more cutting, sharper. — faixvovpsvos uyj>i psp/ff^oZ, piercing even to the dividing) Its parallel presently, xpinxbs, judicial, judging, discerning. — *l/v%ys re Kai Kvsvparoc, of soul and spirit) Hence it is evident that soul and spirit are not synonymous, but the spirit is in the soul. Man, contemplated according to his nature, consists of soul and body, Matt. x. 28 : but when he has in him the work ing of GOD'S word, he consists of spirit, soul, and body. The inmost parts, and the recesses in the spirit, soul, and body of man, are called by Synecdoche1 ap^oi %ai pv&ol, joints and mar- row (marrows). Moses forms the soul, Christ the spirit, 2 Cor. iii. 6. The soul attracts (draws with it) the body, the spirit both, 1 Thess. v. 23. The spirit is divided from the soul by the efficacy of the word of GOD, when the former is claimed for GOD ; the latter is left to itself, in so far as it either does not attain to, or does not follow the spirit. And as the joints are not only divided from the marrow, but the joints and marrow respectively are divided into their own parts : nor are the inten tions only distinguished from the thoughts, but the intentions themselves, as well as the thoughts themselves, are discerned [decided upon] : so, not only is the so ul divided from the spirit, but as it were a part of the spirit is divided irom part of the spirit, a part of the soul from part of the soul : Luke ii. 35. Flesh and spirit are also separated : 1 Pet. iv. 6, note. — ev6v- /uTjffeuv xal iwo/oJv, of the intentions and thoughts) He comes from the greater parts as soul and spirit, and from the less as joints and marrow, to the faculties of the mind. 'EvQvf&qffis, intention, involves feeling ; there follows by gradation swoia, thought, which expresses something simpler, previously existing and internal. Both nourish and foster either good or evil. ®vpbs from 0bu, vooc from v'eca KivoZ/Aat.
A. part for the whole. Append. — ED.