ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων. βύτεροι.
2. ἐν ταύτῃ γὰρ ἐμαρτυρήθησαν οἱ πρεσ-" 3. ἢ Πίστει νοοῦμεν κατηρτίσθαι τοὺς αἰῶνας ῥήματι Θεοῦ, εἰς τὸ μὴ ἐκ φαινομένων τὰ βλεπόμενα ' γεγονέναι. 4.
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Gen. i. 1; Ps. xxXiil. 6; Rom. IVT) ο
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Gen. iv. 4, το; Matt. XXiil. 35.
1το βλεπομενον in SAD*E*P, 17, d; e; Copt:, Aeth.; Τ.Ε. in Dch**KL, f, vg.,
Syrutr, Arm.
rise. This idea is suggested to him be- cause his eye is on Genesis from which he culls the succeeding examples and it is natural that he should begin at the be- ginning. “ Beforeexhibiting how faith is the principle that rules the life of men in relation to God, down through all history, as it is transacted on the stage of the world, the author shows how this stage itself is brought into connection with God by an act of faith” (Davidson). By faith we perceive, with the mental eye νοοῦμεν, cf. Rom. i. 20, that the worlds (αἰῶνας, c/. i. 2; the visible world existing in time, the temporary manifestation of the unseen is meant, see i. το, 11) have been framed (κατηρτίσθαι, as in Χ. 5, σῶμα δὲ κατ- ηρτίσω μοι. In ΧΙ, 21 καταρτίσαι ὑμᾶς, ‘‘perfect you” as in Luke vi. 40; 2)/Cor, xis) rn = τ Thess.) 1Π. τὸ. The word is perhaps used in the present con- nection to suggest not a bare calling into existence, but a wise adaptation of part to part and ofthe whole to its purpose) by God’s word, ῥήματι θεοῦ. This is the perception of faith. The word of God is an invisible force which cannot be per- ceived by sense. The great power which lies at the source of all that is does not itself come into observation ; we perceive it only by faith which is (ver. 1) ‘the evidence of things not seen”. The result of this creation by an unseen force, the word of God, is that ‘‘ what is seen has not come into being out of things which appear”. εἰς TO... γεγονέναι. εἰς τὸ with infinitive, commonly used to express purpose, is sometimes as here used to express result, and we may legiti- mately translate ‘‘so that what is seen, etc.” Cf. Luke v.17; Rom. xii. 3; 2 Cor. Vill 0 αι ΤΠ ἜΤ Υ hess. η, τοι ΓΟ: Burton, M. and Τ., 411. μὴ ἐκ φαι- γοµένων, the Vulgate renders “ ex invisibili- bus,” and the Old Latin “ex non appar- entibus” having apparently read ἐκ μὴ dav. τὸ βλεπόμενον the singular in place of the plural of T.R.and Vulgate, presents all things visible as unity. Had the visible world been formed out of