Ver. 19. As concerns “the perish- ing,” the above sentence agrees with God’s ways of judgment as revealed in Scripture: γέγραπται γάρ κ.τ.λ. The quotation ᾽Απολῶ κ.τ.λ. (suggested by τ. ἀπολλυμένοις) belongs to the cycle of Isaiah’s prophecies against the worldly- wise politicians of Jerus. in Assyrian times (xxviii.-xxxiil.), who despised the word of Jehovah, relying οπ their shallow and dishonest statecraft; their policy of alliance with Egypt will lead to a shameful overthrow, out of which God will find the means of vindicating His wisdom and saving His people and city. The O.T. and N.T. situations are analogous: Gentile and Jewish wisdom, united in rejection of the Gospel, are coming to a like breakdown; and P. draws a powerful warning from the sacred history.—a8etyow (a reminiscence, perhaps, of Ps. xxxiii. 1ο) displaces the less pointed κρύψω: otherwise the LXX text of Isa. is followed; in the Heb. the
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Jer. x. 14. ! ) 2Thi.8; Tit 1. τ6; 1Joiv.6 ff;
Lk xii. 32- r See ver. 18
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i In this manner, xii. 17, 19, xv. 55; Rom. iii. 27; Gal iv. 15; Isa. Xxxiii. 18. k Epp., here only. Syn. Gospp., passim ; Ezra vii. 6. 1 ( Xxii 23, xxiv. 15; Acts vi. 9, ix. 29; six times in Mk.; -τησις, Acts xxviii. 29 eight times besides in P. ; Lk xvi. 8, xx. 34; Mt. xii. 32.
ο Ver. 24; Rom. xi 33; Eph. iii. ro; Lk xi. 49.
Here only; -τειν, Lk. m ii. 6f., iii. 18; η Rom. i. 22; Mt. v. 13; Isa. xix. 11;
p xv. 34; Rom. i. 21; Gal. iv. 9; 3 q Gal i. 15; Col. i. 1ο. im. iv. 17; Tit. i. 3; Mt. xii. 47.
xv. 2; Rom. x. 9; Eph. ii, 8; Jas. ii 14, v. 15; Mt. ix. 22; Mk x. 52, xvi. 16; 5 times in Lk; Acts.
xiv. 9, XV. II, Xvi. 31.
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Cf. τ. αιωνος τουτον above, and iii. 19.
"ῃνδοκησεν: C, Athan.; a characteristic Alexandrian emendation. 4 For ο.Θ., τῷ Θεῳ in G, latt. vg. (placuit Deo),—a Latinism.
vbs. are pass., “the wisdom . . . shall perish,” etc. Isa. xxix. is rich in matter for N.T. use: vv. 13, 18 gave our Lord texts, in Matt. xv. 8 f., xi. 5 respectively ; the Ap. quotes the chap. twice elsewhere, and ch, xxviii. thrice.
Ver. 20. ποῦ σοφός; ποῦ ypap- µατεύς; and (possibly) ἐμώρανεν - . - τὴν σοφίαν, are also Isaianic allusions— to Isa. xix. 11 f. (mocking the vain wisdom of Pharaoh’s counsellors), and xxxiii. 18 (predicting the disappearance of Sen- nacherib’s revenue clerks and army scouts, as a sign of his defeat). The LXX γραμματικὸς becomes γραμματεύς, in consistence with the sophér of the latter passage; συνζητητής (cf. ζητοῦ- σιν, 22), in the third question, is Paul’s addition. — Ὑραμματεὺς unmistakably points, in the application, to the Jewish Scribe (cf. our Lord’s denunciation in Matt. xxiii.); of the Ρατ]. terms, σοφὸς is supposed by most moderns to be general, comprehending Jewish and Gr. wise men together, συνζητητὴς to be specific to the Gr. philosopher—a dis- tinction better reversed, as by Lt. after the Gr. Ff. συνζητέω, with its cognates, is employed in the N.T. of Fewish dis- cussions (Acts vi. 9, xxviii. 29, etc.), and the adjunct τ. αἰῶνος τούτου gives to the term its widest scope, whereas σοφός, esp. at Cor., marks the Gr. intellectual pride; Kadet σοφὸν τὸν τῇ Ἑλληνικῇ στωμυλίᾳ κοσμούμενον (Thd.; cf. Rom. i. 23).—od σοφός (not 6 σοφός); κ.τ.λ.: “Where is a wise man? where a scribe?