the force of a proverb, yesterday, yesterday and the day before, yesterday and to-day, yesterday and to-morrow : Is. xxx. 33 ; Deut. iv. 42 ; 2 Sam. xv. 20 ; Sir. xxxviii. 23 ; and in this general sense of the apostle, yesterday and to-day resemble a pro verb, so as to denote any past and present time, which was denoted especially in the discussion brought to this point. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday — before He came into the world, before His passion, before His ascension — and to-day, in heaven ; yesterday and to-day in the former and latter (second) part of this exhortation : yesterday in the time of our earlier and later predecessors, and to-day in our own age. In whatever way it may be understood, Artemonius, p. 347, cannot join together a short yesterday and long ages (a/oJva$). — o avrbg) Some place a comma before it, but improperly. This is the sentiment of the apostle : Jesus Christ is always the same ; He who was yesterday, is the SAME TO-DAY, nay, for ever (to all AGES) : [Always the same Saviour and the same Teacher. — V. g.] Also, the true doctrine, delivered to you by your teachers, is always the same, not variable, ver. 7, 9. He Himself is always the same : ch. i. 12, Thou art the same : The same in the Old and New Testament; ch. xii. 2, note. See also 1 Cor. iii. 11 ; Phil, in. 16. He is unchangeable, and never dies, although teachers die. — xa/ eig ro-jg aiuvai) and for ever, ver. 20, ch. vii. 3, 16, 24, 25.
9. A/<5a;£a/£, with doctrines) So Paul, Eph. iv. 14. — ^o/x/Xa/g, various) which differ from the one faith in the one and the same Jesus Christ. There was variety in the Levitical worship ; ch. ix. 10. — ^vai^, strange) which differ from the faith of your mi nisters (ruv riyovfAsvuv). The Levitical rites were now also strange to their present faith, ver. 9—14 ; and the apostle was now for getful of their oldness (The Old Testament). He does not therefore call them old, but strange. — w wapap'epstffa) be not car ried away [Neben hin. — Not. Grit.] So napa in composition, ch. ii. 1. The antithesis, /Ss/Sa/oD^a/, to be established, 1 Sam. xxi. 13 (14), fein*l, LXX. xat vapstp'spsro. Eccl. i. 17, fi^fl Theodotion translates napapopdi;. — xaXov yap -^dpirt (Bt(3aiouffQai rqv xapdtav, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace) A categorical sentence : %dpiri jSsjSa/ou/asda (%ara) rr,v xapdiav, we have the heart established by grace ; to which the antithesis cor-