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νεκρῶν, ἐν τούτω οὗτος παρέστηκε» ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν ὑγιής.
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11. οὗτός
ἐστιν 6 λίθος 6 ἐξουθενηθεὶς ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν τῶν οἰκοδομούντων, ὅ γενόμενος
eis κεφαλὴν γωνίας.
12.1 καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἄλλω οὐδενὶ ἡ σωτηρία - 7
οὔτε γὰρ ὄνομά ἐστιν ἕτερον ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν τὸ δεδοµένον ἐν ἀνθρώ-
> 9 “exe a ε ~ ποις, ἐν ὁ δεῖ σωθῆναι ἡμᾶς.
l και ουκ . η σωτηρια.
doubtedly by Rashi in his Commentary, cf. also Wetstein on Matt. xxi. 42; Eder- sheim, 1. s., ii., 725. In the original meaning of the Psalm Israel is the stone rejected by the builders, 1.ε., by the heathen, the builders of this world’s em- pires, or the expression may refer to those in Israel who despised the small begin- nings of a dawning new era (Delitzsch) ; but however this may be, in the N.T. the builders are the heads and representatives of Israel, as is evident from our Lord’s use of the verse, and also by St. Peter’s words here, ‘‘ you the builders,’ R.V. But that which the Psalmist had spoken of the second Temple, that which was a parable of the history of Israel, had its complete and ideal fulfilment in Him Who, despised and rejected of men, had become the chief corner-stone of a spiritual Temple, in whom both Jew and Gentile were made one (r Cor. iii. 11, Eph. ii. 20).--ἐσταυρώσατε: mentioned not merely to remind them of their fault, cf. ii. 36, but perhaps also that they might understand how vain it was to fight against God (Calvin).—év τούτῳ: ‘in him,” or “in this name” R.V. margin. For the former Wendt decides, although in the previous verse he takes ἐν τίνι as neuter; so too Page and Holtzmann. On the other hand Rendall (so De Wette, Weiss) adopts the latter rendering, while admitting that the reference to Jesus Himself is quite possible, as in ver. 12.— ἐνώπ. ὑμῶν: Hebraism, characteristic of St. Luke in his Gospel and in the Acts. The expression is never used in Matthew and Mark, and only once in John, xx. 30, but thirty-one times in the Hebraistic Apocalypse—frequent in LXX, but not found in classical or Hellenistic Greek, although τὰ ἐνώπια in Homer, Blass, in loco, and Grammatik des N. G., p. 125. The word is also found on papyri twice, so Deissmann, Neue Bibelstudten, p. 4Ο.
Ver. 11. otros: “He, as in RV. All E.V. previously translated it “ this,” referring it to 6 λίθος, but in the next verse a person is directly spoken of, not vunder the metaphor of a stone, and the
- + η σωτηρια omit Flor., Ir., Cypr., Aug.; D and Ρατ. omit also
pronoun finds its subject better in the ἐν τούτῳ, masculine of ver, 10. See Winer- Schmiedel, p. 216.--ὃ ἐξουθενηθεὶς: in the LXX and in the Gospels the word used is ἀπεδοκίμασαν. St. Peter, quot- ing apparently from memory, used a word expressing still greater contempt. It is used, e.g., very significantly by St. Luke in his Gospel, xxiii. 11, and again in xvili.g. The word is found in none of the other Gospels, and is characteristic of St. Luke and of St. Paul (cf. Rom. xiv. 3, 10, Cor. i. 28, τ Cor, vi. 4, etc.). It occurs several times in the LXX; cf. Wisdom, iii. 11, iv. 18, Ecclesi- asticus xix. 1, 2 Macc. i. 27, and Psalms of Solomon, ii., 5. In classical writers it is not found at all.—6 yevop. εἰς, “ which was made,” R.V. Blass compares the
Hebrew phrase ber and finds parallels
in v. 36, Luke xiii. το, but γίγνεσθαι eis, while common in the LXX, is a correct expression in classical Greek, although the places in the N.T. in which the formula is found in O.T. quotations are undoubtedly Hebraisms (see below on v. 36), Winer-Schmiedel, p. 257, and with this may be connected the frequency of its occurrence in the Apocalypse (see Sim- cox on the phrase, Language of the N.T., Ρ. 143).- κεφαλὴν γωνίας: not ‘ the top- most pinnacle-stone,” but a corner-stone uniting two walls, on which they rested and were made firm, cf. the meaning of ἀκρογωνιαῖος (Isa. xxviii. 16), 1 Pet. ii. 6-8, Eph. ii. zo, which is used here by Symmachus instead of xed. ywv. The