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attention of the hearer from the particular consideration of in- dividuals to the genus itself. So ver. 12, angels. A gradual rise of subject. — sig vfjjGig, unto you ) who live in this age. — % dpirog , grace) The grace of the New Testament, ver. 13. True grace , ch. v. 12. Comp. John i. 17.
11. E/s r/m % ffoTov, to what , or what manner of) The disjunctive particle expresses the great eagerness of the prophets : (to know) whether those things were about to happen in their time or after- wards : ver. 12. What (riva) denotes the time absolutely, so to speak, an era marked out by its own numbers : what manner of (no?ov) speaks of the time to be known from various events. Dan. ix. 2. — meDytta Xpntrov, the Spirit of Christ) testifying of Christ ; Rev. xix. 10. The Spirit of God , Gen. i. 2, is called the Spirit of Messias in the work entitled Baal Hatturim, — ra — cra^/xara, the sufferings) Hence comes salvation. — ra g/c xpntrbv nady/xura) the sufferings about to happen to Christ. — /xgra raOra) after these suffer- ings.— do^ag, glories) In the plural. The glory of His resurrection ; the glory of His ascension ; the glory of the last judgment and of the kingdom of heaven.
12. O 7g, to whom) searching. — on) that. — ob^ la vroTg, not to them- selves) Matt. xiii. 17 ; Ps. cii. 19 ; Dan. xii. 13. — tj/hTv, to us) The times defined by the seventy weeks of Daniel exactly extend to the time of Christ’s appearance on earth, and to the faithful then living : this is the force of unto us. And these weeks came to an end during the time of Peter. See Ord. Temp. p. 366 (Edit. ii. 314). — abru) those things : for prophets is understood with ministered , as is evi- dent from the answering clause, not to themselves. Compare biaxowo) with an accusative, ch. iv. 10. "A and slg a have reference to abrd. — vZv, now) The Latin expression is hodie , to-day. — sv, with or in) The Evangelists were infallible witnesses. — an obpavov, from heaven) that is, from God. — snidv^obav, desire) It was not so soon revealed to angels ; at any rate, not to all. A well-regulated curiosity is a virtue, not only in prophets, ver. 10, but also in angels. — ayygXo/, angels) The revelation from heaven increases in weight.1 Prophets, and righteous men, and kings, desired to see and hear the things which Christ spake and did, Matt. xiii. : but angels desire to look into the things which the Comforter teaches concerning Christ. — napaxb^ai, to look into) It became known to us by hearing, to angels by sight,
1 Here reaches its climax, viz. in the fact of its being the object of angels' curiosity. — E.