ἀνοικοδομήσω, καὶ ἀνορθώσω αὐτήν: 17. ὅπως ἂν ἐκζητήσωσιν ot κατάλοιποι τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὸν Κύριον, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, ἐφ οὓς ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά pou ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς: λέγει Κύριος 61 ποιῶν ταῦτα
πάντα. 18.2 γνωστὰ dm’ αἰῶνός ἐστι τῷ Θεῷ πάντα τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ.
19. διὸ ἐγὼ ὃ κρίνω μὴ παρενοχλεῖν τοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐπιστρέφουσιν
1ρ ποιων, art. om. 89 Β, Vulg., Irint., Tisch., W.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt. ταντα, om, παντα SSABCD 61, Vulg., Boh., Aeth., Irint., Rebapt., Const., so Lach., Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, and Hilg. (παντα ταντα ELP, Syr. Η.). Amos ix. 12 ο ποιων ταντα.
Ίγνωστα at’ αιωνος, om. rest, SO NBC 61, 180, Sah., Boh., Arm., so also Tisch., Alford, W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt; see W.H., App., p. 96, and for the same ex- planation Wendt, 1888 and 1899, ἐπ loco. The quot. in Amos ix. does not contain γνωστα an’ atwvos, so that the words were separated from the clause and formed into an independent sentence. T.R. is supported by EHLP, Syr. H., Const., Chrys. ; whilst AD, Vulg., Syr. H. mg., Irint., Blass in both texts, and Hilg. read γνωστον απ᾿ αιωνος εστι TW KUPL@ TO εργον αυτον.
3 After εγω Iren. adds το kat’ ewe “secundum me,” cf. Rom. i. 15; may be trans- lator’s paraphrase; retained by Blass in β.
time,” Ramsay), or margin, “ who doeth
ὅπως ἂν ἐκζητ. of κ. τῶν ͵ these things which were known ”’ etc. St.
Neral 7. ἀνθρώπων τὸν Κ.: LXX and Hebrew
are here considerably at variance. He- brew: ‘‘that they may possess the rem- nant of Edom”. In LXX: “that the rest of men may_ seek after (the Lord)" (so also Arabic Version, whilst Vulgate, Peshitto, and Targum _ sup- port the Massoretic text, see Briggs, u. 5., Ῥ. 162). In LXX A τὸν Κ. is found,
but notin B. In LXX rendering DI, men, takes the place of DIT, Edom,
and wT instead of wa, το wat , to seek, instead of wr, to pos-
sess.—kal πάντα τὰ ἔθνη: explicative, ‘‘the rest of men,” ἐ.ε., the heathen: “sine respectu personarum et operum”’. --ὅπως ἂν, Winer-Moulton, xlii., 6; Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, p. 85; cf. Luke ii. 35, Acts iii. 19, Rom. ili. 4, and in no other instances, three of these quotations from LXX.—éq’ οὓς ἐπικέκ. ... ἐπ᾽α.: “upon whom my name is called [pronounced]”: Hebraistic for- mula, cf. LXX, Jer. xli. 15; and Deut. xxviii. 10, Isa. Ixiii. 19, 2 Macc. vill. 15. In James ii. 7, and only there in the N.T. does the same formula recur (see Mayor, Introd., and Nésgen, Geschichte der Neutest. Offb., ii., 51).
Ver. 18. In R.V. the phrase ἀπ᾿ ai@vos is connected closely with the preceding clause, see critical notes: *“who maketh these things known from the beginning of the world” ("οί
James may perhaps have added the words freely to the LXX to emphasise his argument that the call of the Gen- tiles was a carrying out of God’s eternal purpose, but there is nothing correspond- ing to the words in the Hebrew, al- though at the end of ver. rr we have obdiy WD! LXX, καθὼς αἱ ἡμέραι an’ αἰῶνος, and somewhat similar phrase in Isa. xlv. 21, see Zéckler, in loco, for different authorities, and for further dis- cussion of the words, Klostermann, Pro- bleme im Afosteltexte, p.128. ἀπ᾿ αἰῶνος is peculiar to Luke in Ν.Τ., cf. Luke i. 70, Acts iii. 21; it may simply = “of old time,’ see Plummer, St. Luke, 1. c., but here it may intimate that St. James refers to that purpose of God revealed by allthe prophets, asiniii. 21. In Psalms of Solomon, viii., 7, am αἰῶνος seems to be equivalent to “' from the creation of the heaven and earth,” cf. Ps. cxviii. 52. If the conference was held in Greek, as we may reasonably conclude from the fact that Gentile interests were at stake, and that many of the Gentiles, as of the Hel- lenistic Jews, would probably be present, it is very significant that St. James, a He- brew of the Hebrews, quotes the render- ing of the LXX so apposite for his purpose, and that he should see the spiritual restoration of the house of David in the kingdom of Jesus, and the fulfil- ment of prophecy in the reception of the Gentiles into the kingdom of the Messiah, so exclusively guarded by the Jews.