among the Hebrews and Greeks. Chrys. on this passage remarks, ap^srai WTO ruv yovsuv rov Mu'Jffsojg, affq/tuv TIVMV ANAPflN : he begins with the parents (yo«/;) of Moses, some undistinguished MEN. Hesychius explains var'spes as TXo6<r/o/ 5? trpoyovoi, wealthy \inen of note], or ancestors. So ^arspsg, i. 1, iii. 9, viii. 9 ; Eph. vi. 4, note. The LXX. never use yow/fc for HUH, nor will it be found in the New Testament that varspag can be appropriately substituted for the word yove?$, which so often occurs. Moses was concealed by his fathers, that is, by his father (Amram) and by his grandfather, not the maternal grandfather, who was Levi himself, but by the paternal grandfather, who was (Ko- hath) Kahath. Therefore Kahath (Kohath) was alive when Moses was born. We find great advantage in the right expla nation of this passage with respect to sacred chronology. See Ord. Temp., p. 68 [Ed. ii. p. 58]. — e/8ov, they saw) with a kind of presage of great events. — affrs/bv, beautiful) Acts vii. 20, note. — OVK £pv(3f]i)r)ffav, they were not afraid) The mental feeling is put for the effect, ver. 27, note.
24. n/Vrs/ Mwua/j£, by faith, Moses) So far from faith being opposed to Moses, he was an eminent example of it. The name of Moses is repeated, because in ver. 23 the apostle is speaking of the faith of his parents, here of his own. Concerning the use of this observation, look, if you are at leisure, at the Appa ratus, p. 725 [Ed. ii. p. 418]. — p'tyuc, yevopevos) So the LXX., Ex. ii. 11. — ^vjjtraro, refused) An instance of great self-denial.
25. ' EXo/Mvog) Resolve it into, and he chose; but riywapsvos, because he esteemed, ver. 26. — tfuyxaxoup^/b^a/, to suffer affliction tvith) The people had been oppressed. The antithesis is avoXau- civ, enjoyment. — wpoffxaipov, for a season) It is opposed to faith expecting future things : it is therefore put emphatically before e^siv, to have. — apaprfas, of sin) in which he w^ould have been involved in the court of Egypt, which was given to idolatry. At the same time the concrete, sinners, i.e. Egyptian sinners, is intended by the abstract. The antithesis is roD 0«oD, of God.
26. Tov oveidiffftbv roij Xputrov, the reproach of Christ) So ch. xiii. 13. The expectation of Christ, which Moses had in so great a degree, was the centre of all the things on account of which both the Egyptians and all the Gentiles despised Israel, espe cially circumcision, of which the opposite, uncircumcision, is