of faith) Hope and love are added, ver. 23, 24. These three remain. Faith and hope often stand on the same footing (have the same aspect or relation) : wherefore they are here also closely united, and coalesce in the following passages : ch. xi. 1 [xii. 18, xiii. 1], etc. — sppavncp'evoi, being sprinkled) So ch. xii. 24, ix. 13, 19, 21 ; 1 Pet. i. 2. — rag xapdia$, hearts) Both the hearts and the body, ver. 23, are cleansed. It is not necessary to supply for as it is said, diddaxu rbv vibv, I teach my son, so, I take care that my son should be taught, and so pavr/To//,«/ Xovopai rb tafia, I take care that my heart be sprinkled and my body washed. — avb, from) An abbreviated expression, to which the ne cessary word is easily supplied, sprinkled and (supply) delivered from an evil conscience. — ffuvsidtiasuc, conscience) ch. ix. 9, note.
23. Kai \£\ov/j,svoi, and being washed) Single verbs and single participles cohere in ver. 22-24,1 and the particle *«/, and, divides the members of the sentence. But the order is^ verb, participle; participle, verb; verb, participle, by Chiasmus. — rb ffupa, the body) The allusion is to the Levitical washings ; and yet he does not say the flesh, but the body, by which the whole substance of the man is denoted by Synecdoche. The body also had been formerly polluted by sin, but it is washed, that it may be fitted, after the example of the holy body of Christ, ver. 10, for an oblation : Rom. xii. 1 ; 1 Cor. vi. 13, 20. — vdari xaQapCj, with pure water) Ezek. xxxvi. 25; John xix. 34; 1 Cor. vi. 11 ; Tit. iii. 5 ; 1 John v. 6. — 2r?iv bpohoyiav, confession) Confession was taken up at baptism, and ought to be retained [held fast].
24. KaravoZifAzv, let us consider) So s^igM^ovvrsg, looking dili gently, ch. xii. 15. — £/$) to. — Kapo^uffpbv ayaKqg, to provoke unto love) to which the contrary is, to provoke to hatred.
25. Tfo sKiffuvayuyriv sauruv, the assembling of ourselves together) The modern Greek version interprets sviffwayuyqv, ffv%voffvvafyv; but the apostle alludes to the Jewish synagogue, while the pre position, Icr/, somewhat changes the signification of the word. The meaning is : you ought not only to frequent the synagogue (synagogam) as Jews, which you willingly do, but also the ad-
1 Beng. thus makes x.al, in ver. 23, join Tpoatpxapsdce. and not tppowTtaftsvoi and 'Ashovftsvoi. — ED.
Ka^ocpu — r% frTrfto;, with clean — of hope) In like manner cleansing is joined with hope, 1 John iii. 3. — V. g.