ver. 1. Sin itself, by which others are led away and we are tempted, assails us ; not sin, but sinners, contradicted Christ. — avnXoyiav) LXX. dmXoy/a for JV1O, Ps. Ixxx. 7 : for 3*1, often. Contradiction involves striving against, John xix. 12 ; Acts xxviii. 19, and mostly denotes the natural disposition of infidelity or unbelief, as confession follows faith. — iva ^ na^rs raft -^v^a^g LXX. xd/j,vuv ry -^v%r) /AO-J, Job x. 1. For in other places refers to the body ; but ex\v6psvoi is put absolutely, as ver. 5. — IxXuo'/Aevo/) ver. 5. He who s/cXi/sra/, actually fails or faints, x&f&vei, is habitually wearied out.
4. Oucrw, not yet) A spirited Asyndeton. — f*£x,pi$ aJ/xarog, even unto blood} unto wounds and death. The writer goes from the race to the pugilistic contest, as Paul does in the passages for merly quoted. You have, says he, spent your wealth, you have not shed your blood : x. 34. Set before your minds more im portant trials, [namely, such as you have not hitherto experienced ; 1 Cor. x. 13. — Y. g.] — avr/jcarfitfrTjrs, you have resisted) Because contradiction is taken in a bad sense, he uses the word, avnxara- (srqvai, to resist, in a good sense. See the LXX. in a passage which is presently to be quoted. — vpbi) Construed with avrtxar'sffTyrs. Deut. xxxi. 21, xai avrrstaraffrqfferai ?j w<3j} «ur?j KATA <7rp6ffto<7rov avruv ftaprvpouffa, and this song will answer against them as a wit ness. — avrayuvifyftsvoi, striving against) Sin excites a strife : it is our duty to strive against it.
5. Kal) And nevertheless already. — exX'eXqafe, you have forgotten) You have dismissed from your memory and from your mind. So to remember is used both of the memory and of the mind generally. — rfo Kapaxhfaeue, the exhortation) An illustrious testi mony to the authority of the books of Solomon. Comp. 1 Pet. iii. 6, iv. 8, 18, notes ; and ch. v. 5 ; 2 Pet. ii. 22. This exhor tation should have more influence with you, than all the words of exhorters with those who are striving in the world. — w£ t>/o?c, as to sons) For it is said, vis /AOV, my son, most affectionately. — my son) Prov. iii. 11, 12, LXX. y/g ; the rest, as far as <$£;>/£ roe/, in the same words: and they usually translate "02, u/s. For thus Solomon frequently calls him, whom in the Proverbs he instructs in the name of GOD. — ^ oX/yc^g/1) DNDD i>K (comp.
1 'Ohr/apft — tx'hvov) two extremes : ohiyupiiv refers to a contumacious mind : £xAy£ff$«;, to one that is broken down and weak. The former is