Vv. 9, 10. The sins condemned in wv. 7, 8 are sins of sensuality ; these, of un- belief (Ed.)—which takes two forms: of presumption, daring God’s judgments; or of despair, doubting His goodness. The whole wilderness history, with its crucial events of Massah and Meribah, is represented as a “‘trying of the Lord” in Ps. xcv. 8 ff. (cf. Num. xiv. 22), a Soxipacia (Heb. iii. 7-12); this process culminated in the insolence of Num. xxi. 4 f., which was punished by the infliction of the ‘‘fiery serpents”. The like sin, of presuming on the Divine forbearance, the Cor. would commit if they trifled with idolatry (cf. 22) and ‘‘ sinned wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth’’ (Heb. x. 26; Rom. vi. 1); ef. Deut. vi. 16 (Matt. iv. 7), Ps. xxviii. 17 if., for this trait of the Israelite character. ἐκ-πειράζω is to try thoroughly, to the utmost—as though one would see how far God's indulgence will go. The graphic
8—13.
, lol A "ἐγόγγυσαν καὶ ἀπώλοντο ὑπὸ τοῦ 3 ὁλοθρευτοῦ. πάντα ὶ “τύποι” συνέβαινον ἐκείνοις, ἐγράφη δὲ © πρὸς Ἀ νουθε-
, ~ na σίαν ἡμῶν, eis οὓς τὰ ᾿τέλη τῶν
ὁ "δοκῶν ” ἑστάναι "βλεπέτω μὴ ῦπέσῃ.
οὐκ 3 εἴληφεν ὃ εἰ μὴ * ἀνθρώπινος :
{1 Pet. ἵν. 13; 2 Pet. ii. 22; four times in Lk. and Acts; once in Mt.
xii. 7, etc.
xxvi.7. In lit. sense, Acts xvi. 1, etc.
1 Om. παντα AB 17, sah., Mcion., Tert., Or., Cyr., Bas.
"πιστὸς δὲ 6
h Eph. vi. 4; Tit. iii. 10; Judith vii. 27; Wisd. xvi. 6; -ετειν, see iv. 14. sense, h.J. Cf. Mt. xiii. 39; Heb. ix. 26; also Rom. x. 4; 1 Pet. i. 9. Eph. iii. 9, 11; Col. i.26; Tim. i. 17; Heb. i. 8, xi. 3.
] m See iii. 18. Rom. v. 2, xi. 20; 2 Tim. ii. 19. Same inf. in Acts xii. 14; Lk. xiii. 25. iv. 14; 1 Tim. vi.9; Heb. iii. 8 (Ps. xciv. 8); Jas. i. 2,12; 1 Pet. 1. 6; Mt. vi. 13, etc. with like subject, Lk. v. 26, vii. 16; Exod. xv. 15.
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28 (Exod. xii. 23); κ αἰώνων !κατήντησεν." 12. ὥστε ο μη 13. πειρασμὸς ὑμᾶς 13:
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Θεός, ος οὐκ in Bie tarch.
g In this use, vi. 5, vii. 35, iIn this k ΡΙ., in like sense, ii. 7; 1 xiv. 36; Eph. iv. 13; Ph. iii. 11; Acts n In this tense and sense, 2 Cor. i. 24; ο See viii. 9. p Gal, q Aap Barve
r See ii. 13. s See i. 9.
ταντα δε παντα:.
CKLP, etc., vg. syrr. cop. (Alexandrian); παντα δεταυτα: Ν ΓΑ 46, Aug. (Western). Ίπνπικως: all uncc. but DGL, which assimilate to ver. 6. SauveBatvev, ΝΒΟΚ, twelve minn., Mcion., Or., Bas., Cyr.
συνεβαινον, ADG, etc. (Western).
Ακατηντηκεν, MBD"*G, Βα8., Euthal., Cyr. κατηντησεν, ACDCKL, etc.—Alexandrian and Syrian.
5 ov (sic) καταλαβῃ: G, latt. vg. (non apprehendat), Latt. Ff.
impf., ἀπώλλνντο, “lay a-perishing,”’ transports us to the scene of misery re- sulting from this experiment upon God !|— ὑπὸ of agent after ἀπόλλυμι---α cl. idiom, h.l. for N.T.—elsewhere construed with dat., or ἐν and dat., of cause or ground of destruction (viii. 11, Rom. xiv. 15, etc.). —The ‘ murmuring” also occurred re- peatedly in the wilderness ; but P. alludes specifically to the rebellion of Korah and its punishment—the only instance of violent death overtaking this sin (Num. xvi. 41). The ὁλοθρευτὴς in such super- natural chastisement is conceived as the ‘destroying angel”? (2 Sam. xxiv. 16, Isa. xxxvii. 36), called 6 ὁλοθρεύων in Exod. xii. 23, Heb. xi. 28 (cf. Wisd. xviii. 25); in later Jewish theology, Sammael, or the Angel of Death (Weber, Altsyn. Théologie, p. 244). The O.T. analogy suggests that P. had in view the mur- murings of jealous partisans and un- worthy teachers at Cor. (i. 12, iii. 6, iv. 6, 18 ff.); at this point he reverts to the impv. of 2nd. pers., yoyyvlere.—rives (quidam), used throughout of the Israelite offenders, may mean many or few, any- thing short of ‘“‘all’”’ (1-4); cf. ver. 5, also ix. 22, viii. 7, Rom. iii. 3.