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2 Cor. v. A x > er A + 17; Eph. μὲν πιστὸς ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ 11. το. @ νεος. 2: Deut. xviii. 15, 18.
ἐς 411,᾽ whether old or new, is God. The present development of this divine house as well as its past condition and equip- ment is of God. And Christ, the Son, naturally and perfectly representing God or the builder, and by whose agency God created all things (i. 2) is therefore worthy of more honour than Moses. The argument is not so much elliptical as incomplete, waiting to be supple- mented by the following verses in which the relation of Jesus to God and the relation of Moses to the house are exhibited. “ΤῈ is argued that a house- hold must be established by a house- holder; now God established the uni- verse, and therefore he is the supreme householder of the universal household or Church of God, and in that household Jesus, as His perfect representative, is entitled to receive glory corresponding” (Rendall).
Ver. 5. καὶ Μωῦσῆς. . . . Another reason for expecting to find fidelity in Jesus and for ascribing to Him greater glory. Moses was faithful as a servant in the house (ἐν), Christ as a Son over ἐπὶ) his house. θεράπων denotes a ἔτεος servant in an honourable position and is the word applied to Moses in Num. xii. 7. [‘‘Apud Homerum nomen est non servile sed ministros significat volun- tarios, nec raro de viris dicitur nobili σεπετε πας’ (Stephanus). It is especi- ally used of those who serve the gods. See Pindar Olymp. iii. 29.) Both the fidelity and the inferior position of Moses are indicated in the words which occur like a refrain in Exodus: ‘t According to all that the Lord commanded, so did he”. Nothing was left to his own initiative; he had to be instructed and commanded; but all that was entrusted to him, he executed with absolute exact- ness. The crowning proof of his fidelity was given in the extraordinary scene (Exod. xxxvii.), where Moses refused to be ‘‘made a great nation” in room of Israel. He is said to have been faithful εἰς μαρτύριον τῶν λαληθησομένων. The meaning is, the testimony to his faith- fulness which God had pronounced was the guarantee of the trustworthiness of the report he gave of what the Lord afterwards spoke tohim. This meaning seems to be determined by the context in Numbers xii. ‘‘ My servant Moses
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ο. κ. lol a εἶν 16, εἰ δὲ, ὡς υἱὸς ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, οὗ
vi. 1ο; 2 Cor. vi. 16; Eph. 1, 21, 22.
1 Tim. PTS ar Peter ii. 5.
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g ver. 15, εἰ iv. 7; Ps. xlv. 7.