Ver. 11. “Νου these things befel them by way of example” (τυπικῶς)---Οτ “typically,” “‘prefiguratively,”’ ifthe other rendering of τύποι in ver. 6 be preferred (‘‘in figura contingebant illis,”” Vg.); the adv. became current in the latter sense in eccl. Gr. The judgments quoted were
exemplary in their nature; the story: of them serves as a lesson for all time— “they were written with a view to (πρὸς) our admonition ”..---συνέβαινον, impf., of the train of events; ἐγράφη, aor., of the act of record summing them up. For the admonitory purpose of O.T. writers, see Isa. viii. 16, xxx. 8 ff., Hab. ii. 2 f., Deut. xxxi. 1ο ff.—‘*Unto whom the ends of the ages have reached” (κατήντηκεν, devenerunt, Vg.)—‘*whom they have overtaken”. καταντάω signifies reach- ing a mark, “arriving at’? a definite point, whether the ultimate goal or not (see parls.). τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰώνων is syn. with ἡ συντέλεια τ. αἰώνων (Matt. xiii. 40, etc.) and other eschatological expres- sions (cf. 1 Peter i. 20, Heb. i. 2; also Gal. iv. 4, Eph. i. 10); the pl. indicates the manifold issues culminating in the Christian Church. ‘‘ World-ages” (αἰῶ- ves) do not simply follow each other, but proceed side by side; so in particular the age of Israel and that of the Gentiles’”’ (Hf.); ‘*the ends” of Jewish and Pagan history alike are disclosed in Christianity; both streams converged, under God’s direction (cf. Acts xv. 15 ff., xvii. 26 ff.), upon the Gentile Churches (τέλος hds the double sense of conclusion and aim). The Church is the heir of the spiritual training of mankind; cf., for the general idea, John iv. 37 f., 2 Tim. iii. 16 f., Gal. iii. 29, Eph. i. 9 ff.
Vv. 12, 13. The ‘“‘examples’”’ just set forth are full of warning (a), but with ar
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t With inf., t ἐάσει Mt. xxiv. 43; Lk. iv. 41; 4 times in Acts.
u See ver. 9 above. v See iv. 6. 19; Jobii. το; Ps. liv. 12; Prov. vi. 33. xlii. 1). a See vi. 18.
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