t. Paul elsewhere, 2 Cor. xi. 7, in con- trast with ταπεινόω, cf. its similar use in Luke i. 52. Rendall refers its use here to 2 Kings xxv. 27, “lifted up,” 1.ε., at the end of a miserable state of bondage, a passage where the verb is closely joined with ἐξήγαγεν. In Isaiah i. 2 and xxifi,
18. καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν 1 αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμω: 19.7 καὶ καθελὼν ἔθνη ἑπτὰ ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, κατεκληροδότησεν
αὐτοῖς 5 τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν. 20.4 καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα, ὡς ἔτεσι τετρακοσίοις
1ετροπ. SBC*DHLP 36, 61, Vulg., Syr. Harcl. mg., so W.H., Blass, R.V, text, Rendall, Weiss; erpop. AC*E 13, d, Gig., Sah., Boh., Syrr. Pesh. Harcl. text, so Tisch., paid marg., and Hilg. Wendt cannot decide, although he considers ετροφ. as more tting here, while he regards ετροπ. as the more original reading in LXX Deut. i, 31 (B*, Orig.). Tischendorf, however, regards ετροφ. as best attested in Deut. i. 31 and as best suited to the context both there and here. W.H., App., p. 94, maintain
that τροπ. is the more obvious rendering of Nw), but that when the orig. meaning
was forgotten, the context in Deut. i. 31 led to the change to τροφοφ. This cor- ruption in LXX was doubtless widely current in the Apostolic age, and might have been followed here. W.H. conclude that there can be no reason to question a reading supported by $B 61, Vulg., and many good cursives, a reading which they regard as best authenticated in the LXX and as agreeing with the Heb., especially when it was liable to be changed by the influence of the common and corrupt text of the LXX.
They add that both here and in Deut. either reading gives excellent sense.
2«a. om. B 61, Sah., W.H. text, Wendt—but Blass, Hilg. and Weiss retain. W.H. take ws in ver. 18 as ‘‘ when,” not ‘‘about’’.
3 karexAnpodotyger, but karexAnpovoy.naeyv SABCDEHLP 13, 61, Chrys., Tisch.,
W.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
~dor- arose from missing active use of kAnpovop.
Similar instances of confusion between the two verbs in LXX; cf. H.and R. avrots
om. $BD* 13, 40, 61, Sah., Boh., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt.
For αντων
D, Syr. Harcl. read των αλλοφνλων, so Blass and Hilg. 4 The words ως ετεσιν τετρ. κ. πεντ. are to be placed before και peta Tavra—so
WABC, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Arm., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss.
Wendt thinks with
Meyer and Holtzmann that the transposition may have been made to meet a difficulty ;
see also Farrar, St. Paul, i., 370. altogether, so Blass and Hilg.
4 it is used of bringing up children.— παροικίᾳ, cf. vii. 6, and for the noun as here, LXX, 2 Esdras viii. 35, Wisdom xix. 10. Prologue of Ecclus., νετ. 26, Ps. cxx. 5.—peta βραχίονος ὑψ., cf. Exod. vi. 1, 6, Deut. v. 15, etc., Ps. cxxxvi. 12, Baruch ii. 11, etc. Heb- raistic, cf. Luke i. 51, where we have év as in Hebrew, but in LXX pera as of the accompanying the arm of God, and not merely of his power as bringing the people out.
Ver. 18. ἐτροποφόρησεν, see critical notes. ἐτροπ., ‘‘sufiered he their manners,” so A. and R.V. érpod., “bare he them as a nursing father,” R.V. margin. This latter rendering is supported by Bengel, Alford, Bethge, Nosgen, Hackett, Page, Farrar, Plumptre, etc., as more agreeable to the conciliatory drift of the Apostle’s words, but see above, cf. 2 Macc. vii. 27.
Ver. 19. καθελὼν, cf. Deut. vii. 1. In LXX the stronger verb ἐξαίρειν is used, but καθαιρεῖν in LXX often means to destroy, Jer. xxiv. 6, Ps. xxvii. 5, and so
D, Sah., Syr. Harcl. mg. omit pera ταυτα.
in classical Greek. Weiss prefers the force of the verb as in Luke i. 52, to cast down, i.e, from their sovereignty.- κατεκληροδότησεν, see critical notes. If we adopt reading of Κ.Υ. W.H.: “he gave them their land for an inheritance’’. Ver. 20. If we follow the best attested reading, see critical notes, we may con- nect the dative of time ἔτεσι, cf. viii. 11, Closely with the preceding words as signifying the period within which an event is accomplished. The κληρονοµία was already assured to the fathers as God’s chosen, vii. 5, and the four hun- dred years of the people’s sojourn in a strange land, Acts vii. 6, Gen. xv. 13, forty years in the wilderness, and some ten years for the actual conquest of the land made up the four hundred and fifty years (so Weiss, Felten, see Wendt, in loco). If reading in T.R. is accepted (strongly defended by Farrar, St. Paul, i., Ῥ. 370), although it is at variance with 1 Kings vi. 1, according to which Solomon began his Temple in the 480th (LXX 440th) year after the Exodus, we