of Solomon. Thus the gathering together of the nations and their fruitless decrees. find their counterpart in the alliance of Herod and Pilate, and the hostile com- bination of Jew and Gentile against the holy Servant Jesus, the anointed of God, and against His followers; although the words of the Psalm and the issues of the conflict carry on our thoughts to a still wider and deeper fulfilment in the final triumph of Christ’s kingdom, ¢f. the frequent recurrence of the language of the Psalm in Rev. xii. 5, xix. 15, and cf. 5 Π. 26, 277
Ver. 27. Ὑάρ: confirms the truth of the preceding prophecy, by pointing to its historical fulfilment, and does not simply give a reason for addressing God as 6 eime@v—to emphasise this fulfilment συνήχ. is again quoted, and placed first in the sentence.—ém ἀληθείας, of a truth, 2.6., assuredly, Luke iv. 25, xx. 21, xxii. 59, Acts x. 34; so too in LXX,. Job ix. 2, and also in classical Greek. The phrase is characteristic of St. Luke, and is only used elsewhere in N.T. in Mark xii. 14, 32, the usual expression being ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, never used by St. Luke (Friedrich).—etéa, see on iii. 13. --ὂν ἔχρισας: showing that Jesus= τοῦ Χριστοῦ named in the quotation just made, cf. Luke iv. 18, and Isa. Ixi. 1 and Acts x. 38. Ndsgen compares also John x. 36, and refuses to limit the re- ference to iii, 21. The words may πο: doubt be referred to the Baptism, but they need not be confined to that.— Ἠρώδης = βσοσιλεῖς of the Psalm, Π. Πειλᾶτος = ἄρχοντες, but Noésgen, τε- ferring to iii. 17, regards the Gp x. as in- cluded in the Aaot. ‘Hp. instead of Ἡρωίδης, Blass, in loco, and Grammatik des N. G., pp. 7, 8, the iota subscript W.H. thus accounted for ; Winer-Schmie- del, p. 41.--ἔθνεσιν καὶ λαοῖς Ἰ].: the first word = the centurion and soldiers, those who carried out the orders of Pilate ; λαοί the plural (quoted from the Psalm) does not refer with Calvin to the differ- ent nationalities out of which the Jews
26—30.