remain. For he says peivy, not /&i«j. The imperfect depends on the preterite ffeiroiq/AevuV) made. Msvu, I remain, is often said of a thing which is left remaining (surviving) when others pass away ; and hence also povog comes from p'tw ; 1 Cor. xiii. 13. — ra w ffa\ev6fj,sva, the things which are not shaken) the city of the living GOD, ver. 22 : the new heaven and the new earth, Rev. xxi. 1, note.
28. Batf/Xs/av) a kingdom more magnificent than the present heaven and earth. — KapahapBdvovres, receiving) receiving a pro mise from GOD, accepting with the willingness of faith. — S^W/ASI/ ftapiv, let us have grace) xdpiv £%£/v, is to have grace [to feel gratitude], to be grateful, Luke xvii. 9, and often. It also means to be acceptable to, Acts ii. 47 ; and in much the same sense, 2 Cor. i. 15. To have grace, passively, is to be under the power of grace ; also in much the same sense in this passage. To find grace is an act ; to have grace is a state, conjoined with the will (willingness on the part) of believers. — Xarfsuw/^,1 we may serve) as royal priests. — ^irn a/5oDg, with reverence} from the perception of our own unworthiness, lest we should offend the eyes of GoD.2 — xa/ svXa[3£ia$,and fear)fromt\iQ perception of the divine majesty, lest we should bring destruction upon ourselves. Hesychius ex plains evha(3eT<fdai) as pyXarrectfa/, pofaTcQai. Hope is tempered (mingled) with reverence and fear, lest it should degenerate into petulant boldness : comp. the following ver. with ch. x. 27.
29. Ka/ yap, for) A very important Epiphonema.3 — 6 0ebc q/juuv <7rvp jcaravccX/Vxov, our God is a consuming fire) Deut. above, at ver. 18, 19, several times quoted, in ch. iv. 24, LXX., 6V/ Kvpiog 6 0£oc tfou Ki/p xaravaX/Vxov icri, Qsbc ^jjXwrjjg ; comp. ibid. ch. ix. 3. Our God, in whom we hope, is at the same time to be feared.
1 The margin of both Ed. prefers the Indicative, KctTptvofttv. — E. B. The Indie. ^urptvofi.ey has none of the oldest authorities on its side. They
all have 'hot.Tpivupw. — ED.
2 Who is " of purer eyes than to behold iniquity." — ED.
8 An exclamation appended after a weighty demonstration. — ED.