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12. M axdpiog, blessed) pux?tdpiog is derived from ^ , and nfip, u immor- tal” This word, and the crown of life , are opposed to the word / lupavQjjGSTai , “ fade away ” — wopm?, shall endure) See ver. 3 and 4 ; 1 Pet. ii. 20. See App. Crit.,1 2d Edition, on this passage. — ecnjyye/Xaro, promised) See ch. ii. 5. — dyanounv, who love Him) Love produces patience. [He knows how to account all tempta- tions in the light in which it is right to account them : Rom. viii. 28.-V.g.]
13. rupaXf^og, no man , who is tempted) Now there follows another section on the subject of temptations. The strength of patience mainly consists in our knowing the source of the evil which tries us. — Xsysru, say) either in heart, or by word. — avrog, He) The meaning is, Neither do any sins of ours tempt God from without, to entice us to worse things ; nor in truth does He tempt any man of His own accord. This very thing is also characteristic of the Divine simplicity , ver. 5. The word avrog often gives the idea of something spontaneous ; wherefore the word (3ou\riQ zig, 66 of His own will,” in the opposite part of the antithesis (ver. 18), agrees with this.
14. "Exatrrog, every man) Antithetical to ovdsva , u no man,” ver. 13. — vko, by) Lust is, as it were, the harlot ; human nature, the man. — id/ag, his own) We ought therefore to seek the cause of sin in our- selves, and not without us. Even the suggestions of the devil do not occasion danger, before they are made our own (7cba). Every one has his own peculiar lust, arising from his own peculiar disposi- tion, habit, and temperament.— s%sXxo/xsvog, drawn away) in the be- ginning of the temptation, which draws him away from truth and virtue. A passive participle. — hz\za(f^z vog, enticed) in its further progress, admitting the allurement to evil (allowing himself to be enticed). A middle participle.
15. 2u\Xa(3oijffa, ivhen it hath conceived) Sin arising from man’s will. — d/xapr/av, sin) The act of sin. It does not therefore follow that concupiscence of itself is not sin. He that begets man, is himself man. — dnoreXzeQsTfia, when it is finished) having attained its full-grown strength : and this quickly comes to pass. — Odmrov, death) Sin from its birth is big with death.
Mill speaks obscurely respecting some Manuscripts which have this reading, and is silent respecting Estius quoting Gaignceus.
A reads ^opioug. But the weight of authorities is for %opzicAig ; Vulg. itineri - bus , — E.
1 More recent MSS. read vnopivu. But the older MSS. AB, etc., and all the Versions, read viropivu, Vulg. suffert. So Lachm. and Tisch. — E.
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