relative]. — fj,q<rore) Tins particle plainly implies an interrogation;1 moreover, ecre/, with an interrogation, has great force, Eom. iii. 6 ; 1 Cor. xiv. 16, xv. 29. See Not. ad Chrys. de Sacerd., p. 424.
18. "Ot)e\>, whence) The two words mil and had fay differ; but yet they signify the same thing, in so far as both denote an agreement or an arrangement of that sort, which is ratified by blood. Where the agreement is ratified by the blood of another, viz. of animals, which cannot make a covenant, much less testify or make a testament, it is not properly baQfafy a testament ; but yet JV"a, a covenant, is not very much different from the char acter (nature) of a testament, on account of the victims slain. Where the arrangement is ratified by the blood of him that makes the arrangement, i.e. by his death, it is properly diaQfavi, testa ment, which is also expressed by the Hebrew word JTHS, having (taken in) a wider signification. The particle ofav, whence, ought not to be pressed too far, as if the Old Testament were also con secrated by the blood or death of the testator : but still it has its own proper force, in so far as it is intimated, that the New Tes tament, and therefore also the Old, needed to be dedicated with blood. — syxtKaivitfTai, was dedicated or initiated) So the LXX. express the Hebrew word "pn. On the very day of initia tion or dedication, the Old Testament most properly began, and it continued till the night and day when the Lord was betrayed and died.
19. AaXjjdg/tfjjs, having been recited or spoken) Ex. xxiv. 16, etc. — irdffyg evToXyg Kara vo^ov, every precept according to the law) Moses had recited or read those commandments which occur in Ex. xx., and perhaps also those which occur in the following chapters. And the brief indication of the written book was tantamount to a recapitulation of all that was recited. — ruv [MG-yjuv xai rpdyuv, of calves and goats) In Ex. xxiv. 5 they are expressly called ^off^dpta, little calves : the word oXoxauro;-
in that passage implies the rpdyovs, spoken of here. — ;^rd g xai spiou xoxxfoov nai VGGUI^O-J, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop) These are not found in the passage quoted, but are taken for granted as already well known from other passages in the writings of Moses, Lev. xiv. 5, 6. The scarlet wool corre- 1 So Lachm. rightly has an Interrogation marked at o 'hiaQk^wog ; — ED.