Bibelstudien, pp. 111, 112).—peta Ἰησοῦ, cf. Heb. iv. 8, where Syr. Pesh. has ** Jesus the son of Nun” (but not here). —év τῇ κατασχέσει τῶν ἐθνῶν: ‘ when they entered on the possession of the nations,” R.V., lit., in the taking posses- sion of the nations, z.e., of the land in- habited by the nations (Wendt). A.V. follows Vulgate; frequent in LXX, cf. Jos., Ant., ix., 1, 2, and Test. xii. Patr., x., used by Philo in the sense of a portion given to keep (Grimm-Thayer).—dy : Attic attraction, cf. i. 1.—éwd προσώ- mov: fora similar phrase cf. Deut. xi. 23, xli, 29, 30, etc., and frequently in LXX,
Hebrew 13193. ---ἕως τῶν jp. A.: to be
connected with the first part of the verse, ‘which also our fathers brought in . . unto the days of David” (inclusively), see Wendt, in loco, i.e., ‘‘et mansit tabernaculum usque ad tempora Davidis’’ (Blass). Rendall takes the words as closely joined to ὧν ἐξῶσεν, but the clause ὧν ἐξῶσεν . .. ἡμῶν is rather subordinate.
Ver. 46. ὃς εὗρε χάρι», cf. Luke i. 30, Hebraistic, cf. Gen. vi. 8; it may be tacitly implied that had the temple been so important as the Jew maintained, God would have allowed the man who found favour before him to build it; on the phrase ἐνώπ. K. or Θεοῦ see above On iv. το.---ἠτήσατο εὗρειν, {.ᾳ., σκήνωµα, cf. iil. 3; ἠρώτα λαβεῖν, and instances in Wetstein, ‘‘ asked to find,” not only ‘Cdesizedy eX, a2) Samus νο. a Chron. xxii. 7, Ps. Ixxxi. 5.---σκήνωμµα : perhaps used by David (as in the Psalm quoted) in his humility (Meyer) ; used of the temple in 1 Esdras i. 50. David of course desired to build not a σκηνή, which already existed.—r@ Θεῷ Ιακώβ, see critical notes. ‘
Ver. 47. Σολομῶν, see above on iii. rr. ---δὲ: “But” ος“ And ”—8é, adversative as in A. and R.V., cf 2 Chron. vi. 7-9, where Solomon is represented as claim- ing God’s promise that he should build the house—a favour denied to his father David.
Ver. 48. GAN οὐχ: But the presence of the Most High (in contrast to the