gifts of ρταςε.---ἠχμάλωτενσεν αἱ ω- σίαν: He led captivity captive. the original "AW FAW, the abstract αἰχ- μαλωσίαν (= “a body of captives ”
chosen according to a familiar usage if. Num. xxxi. 12; 2 Chron. xxviii. rr; see Win.-Moult., p. 282), instead of the con- crete αἰχμαλώτους (" captives”’), adds to the force of the sentence. The verb αἰχ- μαλωτεύω belongs to late Greek ; it is pretty freely used in the LXX and the Apocrypha. The phrase is a general one, meaning nothing more than that He made captives (cf. Judges v. 12), and suggesting nothing as to who these captives were. Neither in the Psalm nor in Paul’s use of it here is there anything to warrant the idea that the captives are the redeemed (Theod.), or men in the bonds of sin on earth (Harl.), or souls detained in Hades (Est., Konig, Delit., εἰς). The most that the words themselves, or passages more or less analogous (1 Cor, xv. 25, 26) warrant us to say is that the captives are the enemies of Christ; just as in the Psalm they are the enemies of Israel and Israel's God. But these are left quite undefined, and the whole idea of the clause is subordinate to that next expressed, viz., the giving of the gifts. —xal ἔδωκε δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις : and gave gifts unto men. The καί of the TR is found in ΒΟ KL, etc. ; but is omitted in 4*AC*D*G, 17, etc. It is put in brackets by WH, and omitted by LT, but retained (on the whole rightly) by RV. Here the quotation diverges widely, both from the original
Hebrew, which has MAIDA alae)
OTN (= Thou hast received gifts
among men"’); and from the LXX which renders it ἔλαβες δόματα ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ (or ἀνθρώποις). ‘The idea in the Psalm is that of Jehovah, the Conqueror, receiving gifts, that is to say, gifts of homage; or, possibly, receiving the captured men themselves
regarded as gifts or offerings, the DIN2
being capable of that sense (cf. Ewald, Aus. Lehrb. d. Hebr. Sprache, § 287 h). The idea expressed here is that of the ascended Christ giving gifts to men ; ἔδωκε being substituted for ἔλαβες, and τοῖς ἀνθρώποις for the generic ἐν ἀνθρώ- πῳ (or ἐν ἀνθρώποι-).---Ἴ 5 in order to suit the purpose of a testimony to the statement made regarding Christ and the gift of grace, the OT passage is materially changed. OT quotations introduced in the NT are given without much regard to the literal faithfulness with which
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