renders it : comp. ver. 23 : whence Hesychius has dbeg, ilsiliclg- asvoiy polluted , at the same time showing a Metonymia1 in this place. But he also says, GmXdbeg, a / Grspie^o/Jjsmi rr\ QcikdGGT} Kerpeu, , the rocks which are surrounded hy the sea . Moreover G^iXag also denotes a storm ; and this very notion, of which we have remarked an ex- ample on Chrysostom, respecting the priesthood, p. 375, is approved by CEcumenius. Let the reader make his choice. This metaphor is followed by four others ; from the air, the earth, the sea, the heaven. — d<po(3ug , feasting themselves without fear) Sacred feasts are to be celebrated with fear ; [which is opposed to luxury. — V. g.] Feasting is not faulty in itself : therefore without fear ought to be connected with this verb. — sauroug , themselves) not the flock. — b'svbpo t pQivonupivd) that is, {Jjv\v , the last part of the
month : thus <pdiv6<7rupovj the end of the autumn : thence bevbpov (pQivonu- pivov, a tree of such an appearance as that which presents itself at the end of the autumn , without leaves and fruit. There is here a grada- tion, consisting of four members. The first, and flowing from it the second, has reference to the fruit : the third, and flowing from it the fourth, has reference to the tree itself. — uxapna, without fruit) trees which produce nothing serviceable for food. — big) twice ; that is, entirely : with reference to their former state, and their Christian state. — expi^ud&vru, plucked up hy the roots ) This is the last step in the process here mentioned.
13. *ETap pifyvra, foaming out) swollen through plenty : Isa. lvii. 20. — acrepsg <rXa vyrai, wandering stars) It has been ascertained in a more recent age, that planets are of themselves dark (opaque) bodies, shining with borrowed light. St Jude, even at that time, from his divine light, conveyed this meaning. For it is plain, from the sub- sequent mention of darkness , that the allusion is not merely to the etymological derivation of wandering stars [wXavij rar, Th. ^Xavdo^ai^ I wander\ (although this is also suitable). Comp. 2 Pet. ii. 17. And the same reason shows that it is not to be understood of the ignis fatuus, Aristotle plainly distinguishes between oi boxouvreg aar'speg bidrrsiv , the stars which appear to dart through the heavens , shooting stars, and o i rr\avr\rui dffrepeg, the planets. Book i. Meteor, ch. 4 and 6. — olg, to whom) As before, in the case of the clouds, trees, and waves, so now to the wandering stars, an appropriate description is added, with reference to the Apodosis.
14. Ilpoepqreuffe) acted as prophet. — xa i rovroig , even to these) not
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