7. "Oj, who) namely Christ, the Son of God, the Priest. This is not said, but who, with great significancy in the relative pro noun ; for the subsequent discourse corresponds to the names given in ver. 5, 6. A summary of those things, which are to be discussed in ch. vii. and the following chapters, is contained in ver. 7-10, and introduced with a remarkable anticipatory caution1 and preparation, ver. 11, 12. And there is most ex quisitely comprehended in this summary the onward progress of His passion, with its most secret (inmost) causes, from Geth- semane even to Golgotha, and the expressions used here are the same as those used by the evangelists : comp. also Ps. xxii. 3, 20, etc., 25, Ixix. 4, 11, cix. 22. — sv raig y]^spaic rrjg ffapKog aurou, in the days of His flesh) in those days, the two especially, during which He suffered those things, and in order to suffer them, He assumed flesh like to that, which was sinful and mortal : ch. ii. 14, x. 20 ; Matt. xxvi. 41, at the end : when by reason of weak ness He seemed to be a mere man, John xix. 5. — fafais rs *«/ ixerypiasj both prayers and also supplications) plural ; for in Gethsemane He prayed thrice. The particle re, both, indicates that the words are not mere synonyms in this passage : prayers refer to the mind ; supplications, also to the body, as the origin of the word, faerevu, / supplicate shows, in Eustathius. Regard ing both see Matt. xxvi. 39. — irpbg rw dwd/j^vov cufyiv avrbv sx Oavdrov, to Him that was able to save Him from death) Abba Father, says He, all things are POSSIBLE to Thee; let this cup pass from Me. Mark xiv. 36 : comp. John xii. 27. This possi bility of all things to God is opposed to the weakness of Christ's flesh. — <ru)7eiv, to save) ffufyiv, and presently ffurr.piac, are conju gates, to save, salvation. — IK} Presently; afterwards dcro. The two words, in other respects, equivalent, agree here with the difference of the subject : out of death, from terror. He, how ever, in obedience to the will of the Father underwent the death, out of(sK) which the Father might have delivered Him, so that He should not have died : He was altogether delivered from («TO) its horror, in that He was heard. — /asra xpavyris }a%vpu$ nai daxpuuv, with strong crying and tears) On the cross, He is said to have cried, not to have shed tears. Both of these particulars, as
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