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Septuagint translates by apsrag, just as they put dpsrri for Tin, Hab. iii. 3 ; Zech. vi. 13. Eustathius on Horn. Odyss. 2., dperqv ov pi av rivoc Keys/, dXXa r'o svdaifiov rr\g Zfyrig xai fiaxapwrbv, y\ xai nacav dsi'torqra, ov fioovov rr\ v xard < pp'svag , aXXa xai rr\v xard spy a xai oixovofiiav xai offa roiavra : he does not speak of any one excellency , but of the happiness and blessedness of life , or even all cleverness , not only in mind , but in deed and in management , and things of this kind. And so he says everywhere. — s%ayyiiXy\rs, should show forth or declare ) The sense is, that ye acknowledge and declare. Septuagint, Is. xlii. 12, rag apsrag avrov sv raig vrjffoig avayysXovtfi, they shall declare His praises in the islands. ’Eg in l^ayy sixers expresses the ignorance of many, to whom the faithful ought to declare the excellencies of God. — rov) of God : 2 Pet. i. 3, note.
10. 0/ rrort, who in time past ) See Pom. ix. 25, note; and with u in time past ,” comp, presently after, u ye weref ver. 25. The quotation from Hosea is a kfrd of enigma. In Hosea, if taken lite- rally, it has reference to the Jews ; for, according to the context, as an axiom it is only applied to a particular subject ( hypothesis *); but there may be a more general question ( thesis ) in the mind of the speaker, and then it may be applied to other subjects. / will call them My people, who were not (. My ) people , is applicable to Jews and Gentiles. Thus care is taken that the sense of the text may not necessarily appear to be twofold. — ov Xaog , not a people) Pom. x. 19, note : not even a people, much less the people of God. The former half of the verse has special reference to the Gentiles ; the latter to the Jews. Concerning the latter, see Tit. iii. 4, and the context : concerning the former, Acts xv. 14.
11. ’ Ayurr Tirol, dea7‘ly beloved) A friendly and well-disposed exhor- tation.— vrapaxaXu, I beseech you) So ch. v. 1. [A great exhortation, of which the former part begins here ; the second part in the middle of ver. 15, ch. iii. Both parts have ha sv w, x.r.X., ch. ii. 12, and iii. 16. — Not. Crit. ] — nupoixovg xai ‘TrapsKid/i/Aovc, strangers and foreigners) A gradation : ye are not only as in a strange house, but even as in a foreign city, ye who believe of the Jews and Gentiles. The rea- son why ye should abstain. Lev. xxv. 23, Septuagint, rrpoffi]Xvroi xai trdpotxot vfisTg hrs svavriov sfiov, ye are strangers and sojourners before
1 Hypothesis is a particular definite question : thesis, where the subject of in- quiry is general and unlimited. Cic. in Top. : Qusestionum duo sunt genera, alterum infinitum, alterum definitum ; definitum est, quod vrr66satv Grajci, nos causam ; infinitum, quod Osaiv illi appellant, nos propositum possumus notni- nare. — T.
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