Ver. 7. μηδὲ εἰδωλολάτραι γίνεσθε, **And do not become idolaters’’: in ap- position to the eis τὸ py clause of ver. 6, the dependent sentence of purpose pass- ing into a direct impv.; for the like conversational freedom, cf. i. 31, iv. 16, vii. 37, ix. 15, and notes. The repetition of this warning in ver. 14 shows its urgency. Even where eating of the εἰδωλόθυτα was innocent, it might be a stepping-stone to el8AoAatpeia.—En- forcing his appeal by ref. to the calf- worship at Sinai, the Ap. dwells on the accompaniments of this apostasy; here
δόο
u Exod. XXXxli. 6; intrans. passim.
ν In this sense, opp. to καθιζω OF the like, TOv,? Acts ix. 6, 402) 34, xii. 7, ἀπώλοντο : etc.; Mk.
ix. 27; Lk. : iv. 29, v. 25, etc.; Jo. xi. 31.
6 ads φαγεῖν καὶ metry?
7
vi. 18. y Of persons, Rom. xi. 11, 22, xiv. 4; (Deut. vi. 16), x. 25; Ps. Ixxvii. 18. a Cf. vii. 5.
29; Mt. xx. 11; Lk. v. 30; four times in Jo.
lwomep, SABDcL, many minn. : unusual in this connexion.
ΑΡ pr aae Ἰρ και ανεστησαν
pia ἡμέρᾳ εἰκοσιτρεῖς χιλιάδες :
wN.T.h.1.; cf. Judg. xvi. 25: 2 ΚΙ. vi. 5; Jer. xxxviii. 4.
λολάτραι γίνεσθε καθώς τινες αὐτῶν, ds! γέγραπται, -'"Ἐκάθισεν
w
8. μηδὲ
, 32 παίζειν °
Ἀπορνεύωμεν, καθώς τινες αὐτῶν ἐπόρνευσαν καὶ ’ἔπεσον ὃ ἐν"
9. μηδὲ * ἐκπειράζωμεν τὸν Χρισ-
, ~ ~ καθὼς καί τινες αὐτῶν "ἐπείρασαν ὃ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν Ὁ
Io. μηδὲ "γογγύζετει καθὼς) καί]Ὀ τινες αὐτῶν
x See
eb. iv. 11; Rev. ii.5; Lk. xxi. 24. z Lk. iv. 12
ἳ Exod. xvii. 2,7; Acts ν. 9, xv. 10; Heb. iii. ϱ; (Jo.) viii. 6. b Numb. xxi.6; Mk. xvi. 18; Lk. x. το; cf. Jo. iii. 14.
c Exod. xvi. 7; Numb. xiv.
ws, CD*KL, etc,
ὄπειν, & (wv) B*D*G; see note on ix. 4.
3επεσαν: all pre-Syrian uncc.
So passim ; see Wr., pp. 86 f. 4 Om. ev S&*BD*G (Neutral and Western). 5 rov Kuptov, ΝΒΟΡ 17, 46, 73, syrP-mg- cop., Epiph.
Ins. ev: Alexandrian and Syrian. tov Θεον A 2, Euthal,
τον Χριστον DGKL, etc., latt. vg. syrsch. sah., Mcion. (Western and Syrian).
6 εξεπειρασαν (2), NCD*GP 17, 46, 73—assimilated to previous vb. επειρασαν, ABDcKL, etc.; so W.H. txt., Nestle, El.
Ἰαπωλλυντο, NAB: ᾖ.]. for the impf. 8 γογγυζωµεν, DG (Western)—assimilated to context.
2xa@awep, SBP, Or., Bas. 10 Om. και all uncc. but KL.
lay the peril of his readers who, when released from the superstition of the old religion (viii. 4), were still attracted by its feasting and gaiety: ‘‘ The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport” (following the LXX precisely). This παίζειν, as in idolatrous festivals commonly, included singing and dancing round the calf (Exod. xxxii. 18 f.); there is no need to imagine a darker meaning. It was a scene of wild, careless merri- ment, shocking under the circumstances and most perilous, that Moses witnessed as he descended bearing the Tables of the Law.—-retv, cf. ix. 4 and note. Ver. 8. μηδὲ πορνεύωμεν: here P. comes closer to his readers, adopting the communicative 1st pl. For the ρτενα]- ence of this vice at Cor. and its connex- ion with Cor. idolatry, see vil. 2, vi. II, and Introd., p. 734 (cf. Num. xxv., 1 f. also Rev. ii. 14); for its existence in the Cor. Church, ch. v. above, and 2 Cor. xii. 21. Wisd. xiv. 12 affirms, of idolatry at large, apxy πορνείας ἐπίνοια εἰδώλων; see the connexion of Rom. i. 24 with the fore- going context.—‘‘23,000”’ is a curious variation from the figure given in Num. xxv. g for the slain of Baal-Peor, which is followed by other Jewish authorities, v1z., 24,000. It is more respectful to
credit the Ap. with a trifling inadvertence than to suppose, with Gd., that he makes a deliberate understatement to be within the mark. Ev. gives no evidence for his alleged ‘‘ Jewish tradition” in support of the reduced estimate. Possibly, a primi- tive error of the copyist, substituting y’ for 8’ (Hn.).