Ver. 17. καθὼς: not when” as in A.V., but ‘‘as” R.V., prout, quemadmo- dum, cf. Mark iv. 33: ‘in the degree that ”: Felten thinks that it is temporal, as in 2 Macc. i. 31.—tis ἐπαγγελίας, cf. ii. 33.—s: Attic attraction. — ὤμοσεν: but if we read with R.V., etc., ὡμολόγησεν ‘‘ vouchsafed,” so in classical Greek, cf. Jer. li. 25 (LXX), Matt. xiv. 7 (@pooev, a gloss from the LXX according {ο Ἰλεπά().---ηὔξησεν ὁλ. καὶ ἐπληθύνθη, cf. Exod. i. 7, so in a strange land the blessing was continued (Weiss).
Ver. 18. Cf. Exod. i. 8, and Jos., Ant., νο, 1. After Erepos add ἐπ᾽ Αἰγ., see
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above. ἕτερος not ἄλλος, probably mean- ing the native sovereign after the expulsion of the Shepherd Kings, ‘* Joseph,” B.D.?; “Egypt,” B.D.’, pp. 886, 887 ; Hambur- ger, Real-Encyclopddie des fudentums, i., 5, ΡΡ. 759, 760; Sayce, Higher Criticism and the Monuments, p. 237.--ἄχρις οὗ: only in Luke amongst the Evangelists, Luke xxi. 24, Acts vii. 18, xxvii. 33. Sayce, following Dr. Naville, argues in favour of Ramses II. as the Pharaoh of the Oppression, see 1. s. and Expository Times, January and April, 1899, but see on the other hand the number of February, p. 210 (Prof. Hamond), and Exfosttor, March, 1897, Prof. Orr on the Exodus. Joseph settled under the Hyksos or Shepherd Kings, but the words “who knew not Joseph” should apparently refer, according to Dr. Sayce, not to the immediately succeeding dynasty, 2.ε., the eighteenth, in which a Canaanite might still have occupied a place of honour, but rather to the nineteenth, which led to the overthrow of the stranger, and to a day of reckoning against the Heb- rews. But it becomes difficult to speak with absolute confidence in the present state of Egyptological research, see Ex- positor, 1. δ., Ρ. 177. οὐκ ῄδει: in Robin- son’s Gesenius, Ῥ. 380, the word is taken literally, or it may mean ‘‘ who does not know Joseph’s history or services’’; others take it “νο had no regard for his memory or services’. Hamburger understands by it that Joseph was quite forgotten under the new national dynasty, whilst Ndésgen refers to the use of οἶδα in Matt. xxv. 12.
Ver. 19. κατασοφισάµενος: in Exod. i. 10 we have the same verb “let us deal wisely with them”’ here translated ‘‘ deal subtilly ” ; Vulgate, “' circumveniens,”’ cf. Rhemish version: ‘circumventing our stock ” (γένος, as in iv. 36); ¢f. Judith v. 11, x. 19, in both passages the same verb is used, translated (R.V.), v. 11, ‘‘ dealt subtilly ’’—the Syriac, probably nearest to the Hebrew, ‘‘dealt wisely with them,” i.e., the Egyptians dealt so with the Hebrews. In the second passage, R.V., word is rendered ‘‘ might deceive’”’; same verb in Syriac as in Exod. i. 10, Heb.;
Speaker’s Commentary, ‘* Apocrypha,” i., Ῥ. 290. Josephus and Philo use verb in same sense as in text ; see for the force and meaning of kata here, Page and Rendall. ---ἐκάκωσε, cf. Exod. i. 11, where the same word isused of task-masters afflicting the people with burdens. For other ways in which Pharaoh is said to have afflicted the people, see Jos., Ant., ii., 9, 1.---τοῦ ποιεῖν κ.τ.λ., “that they [or he, margin] should cast out their babes,” R.V. But a comparison with Exod. i. 22 (LXX) justifies us in taking these words, as in R.V. margin, as describing the tyranny of Pharaoh, not as declaring that the parents themselves exposed their children. For the construction see Blass, Grammatik, Ρ. 231; cf. 1 Kings xvii. 20, etc., genitive of result, see Page on ili. 12, and zx loco, and Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, p. 157.---ἔκθετα: only here in N.T. and not in LXX, but used with γόνος in Eur., Andr., 70.—eis τὸ: expressing the pur- pose, cf. Luke v. 17.--ζωογονεῖσθαι: in the active the verb is used three times, in Exod. Ἱ., of the midwives saving the Hebrew children alive, ver. 17, 18, 22 (cf. Judg. viii. το, etc.), vivwm conservare. In the N.T. the word is only used by St. Luke here and in his Gospel, chap. xvii. 33, and once by St. Paul, 1 Tim. vi. 13 (see R.V. margin). St. Chrysostom com- ments on the thought that where man’s help was despaired of, and the child was cast forth, then God’s benefit did shine forth conspicuous, Hom., xvi.