But in the Hebrew the word NV
= “terrible,” not ‘‘ clearly visible,” and the LXX here, as elsewhere, Hab. i. 7, Mal. i. 14 (Judges xiii. 6, A’), εἲς., has failed to give a right derivation of
the word which it connects with ΠΝ,
oF:
to see, instead of with NY, to fear a
(Niph. 119 and Part., as here, “ter- rible”’). Zéckler holds that the LXX read not NVI, but NTI.
ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἡμέραν Κυρίου τὴν μεγάλην καὶ ἐπιφανῆ.! Tas ὃς ἂν ἐπικαλέσηται τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου σωθήσεται.”
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A) ie 21. καὶ ἔσται, 22. Ανδρες
‘ SEAT Ξ Ἰσραηλῖται,, ἀκούσατε τοὺς λόγους τούτους: ᾿Ιησοῦν τὸν Ναζωραῖον,
ἄνδρα ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀποδεδειγμένον eis ὑμᾶς δυνάµεσι καὶ τέρασι
1 επιφανη ABCEP, Vulg., Chrys., W.H., Weiss, R.V.; but om. SD, Gig., so Tisch., Wendt, Hilg., Blass, who adds ‘‘ del. igitur et in a, et fort. omnino per locum 4-14 [ἱ.ε., VV. 17-20) forma a male interpolata”’.
ΆΙσραηλιται P; ἰσραηλειται NABCDE, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss.
Ver. 21. ἐπικαλέσηται τὸ ὄνομα, the usual LXX rendering of a common He- brew phrase. The expression is derived from the way in which prayers addressed to God begin with the invocation of the divine name, Psalm iii. 2, vi. 2, etc., and a similar phrase is found in classical writers, ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τοὺς θεούς, Xen., ο. πό ο 350 Plat.) Τό. Ῥν ση, οι. Polyb., xv., 1, 13. From this it was an easy step to use the phrase as meaning the worshippers of the one God, Gen. iv. 26, xii. 8, 2 Kings v. 4. It is there- fore significant that the Christian con- verts at Corinth are described by the same phrase, 1 Cor. i. 2. But just as in Rom. x. 12 this same prophecy of Joel is beyond all doubt referred by St. Paul to the Lord Jesus, so here the whole drift of St. Peter’s speech, that the same Jesus who was crucified was made both Lord and Christ, points to the same con- clusion, ii. 36. In Joel Κύριος is un- doubtedly used of the Lord Jehovah, and the word is here transferred to Christ. In its bearing on our Lord’s Divinity this fact is of primary importance, for it is not merely that the early Christians addressed their Ascended Lord so many times by the same name which is used of Jehovah in the LXX—although it is certainly remarkable that in 1 Thess. the name is applied to Christ more than twenty times—but that they did not hesitate to refer to Him the attributes and the prophecies which the great pro- phets of the Jewish nation had associated with the name of Jehovah, Zahn, Skizzen aus dem Leben der alten Kirche, pp. 8, το, 16 (1804), and for the force of the ex- pression, ἐπικ. τὸ ὄνομα, in 1 Cor. i. 2, see Harnack, History of Dogma, i., p. 29, E.T.—és ἂν ἐπικ., ‘‘ whosoever ”’: it would seem that in St. Peter’s address the expression does not extend beyond the chosen people; cf. ν. 36.--σωθή- σεται: to the Jew salvation would mean safety in the Messianic kingdom, and from the penalties of the Messianic judgment ; for the Christian there would