14—24.
359
δεξάμενος, 18. " πρὸς ὃν ἐλαλήθη, “Ὅτι ἐν ᾿Ισαὰκ κληθήσεταί σοι π Gen. xxi.
, ” σπερμα °
Θεὸς, ὅθεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐν παραβολῇ ἐκομίσατο. μελλόντων εὐλόγησεν 2 ᾿Ισαὰκ τὸν ᾿Ιακὼβ καὶ τὸν Ἡσαῦ. τει Ἰακὼβ ἀποθνήσκων ἕκαστον τῶν υἱῶν Ἰωσὴφ εὐλόγησε ὃ: Kai” προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τῆς ῥάβδου αὐτοῦ.
19. λογισάμενος ὅτι καὶ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγείρειν ' δυνατὸς 6
12; Rom.
ix.7; Gal. 11. 29. 20. “ Πίστει περὶ ο Gen. XXVli. 27 27. ὉΠίσ. το, Ἷ Gen. xlvii. 31, et xlvili. 22. “ Πίστει ᾿Ιωσὴφ - 15, 16,
A A a 5: ἢ A ca 3 ‘ λ > , ‘ Ν “ a τελευτῶν περὶ τῆς ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐμνημόνευσε, καὶ περὶ τῶν ᾳ Gen. 1. 24.
ὀστέων αὐτοῦ ἐνετείλατο.
~ A A ,ὔ A μηνον ὑπὸ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, διότι εἶδον ἀστεῖον τὸ παιδίον - καὶ
οὐκ ἐφοβήθησαν τὸ διάταγμα ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως.
1εγειρειν in Μ ΌΕΚΙ, ; εγειραι in AP, 17, 71.
Σηνλογησεν in ADE, 17.
that life and so break his whole connec- tion with the future. No greater test of his trust in God was possible. He con- quered because he reckoned (λογισάμενος ΚΕ expresses the formation of an opinion by calculation or reasoning, as in Rom. viil. 18; 2 Cor. x. 7” (Vaughan).), that even from the dead God is able to raise up—a belief in God’s power to do this univers- ally, see John ν. 21. This belief enabled him to deliver his only son to death. “Whence (ὅθεν, 7.¢., ἐκ νεκρῶν, although several commentators, even Weiss, render it ‘wherefore’) also he received im back (ἐκομίσατο, for this meaning see Gen. xxxviii. 20 and passages in Wet- stein) in a figure (ἐν παραβολῇ, not actually, because Isaac had not been dead, but virtually because he had been given up to death. He had passed through the likeness of death, and his restoration to Abraham was a likeness of resurrection. (Whoever wishes to see how a simple ex- pression may be tortured should consult Alford’s long note on this place.)
Ver. 20. Πίστει περὶ μελλόντων. ... ‘* By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to things future,” as is recorded in the well-known passage, Gen. xxvii. Isaac thus in his turn exhibited a faith which could be described as ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις. ‘ By faith Jacob when dying (ἀποθνήσκων cf. καλούμενος, ver. 8, and πειραζόμενος, ver. 17: the participle il- lustrates ver. 13 and also reminds the reader that Jacob before he died saw his children’s children inheriting the promise (‘‘ thy two sons are mine,” Gen. xlviii. 5) blessed each of the sons of Joseph. ἕκαστον τ. υἱῶν, that is, he gave each an individual blessing, crossing his hands, laying his right on the head of Ephraim the younger, his left on Manasseh, thus
23. " Πίστει Μωσῆς γεννηθεὶς ἐκρύβη τρί- "
24. *Nioter Μωσῆς δρ.
Ιχχκχῖν.το,
3ηνλογησεν in A, 17, 37. 4δογμα in Avi, 34.
distinguishing between the destiny of the one and that of the other and so more abundantly illustrating his faith. καὶ προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τῆς ῥάβδου αὐτοῦ, ‘‘and worshipped leaning upon the top of h.s staff’. The words are from the LXX rendering of Gen. xlvii. 31 where after Joseph had sworn to bury his father in Canaan, “Israel worshipped, etc.”. His exacting this promise from Joseph was proof of his faith that his posterity would inherit the land of pro- mise. The LXX translating from an un-
pointed text read ΓΙΡΙΟΓ] the staff and not as it is nowread ΤΟ ΟΡ] the bed,
(as in xlviii. 2). The meaning in either case is that in extreme bodily weakness, either unable to leave his bed or if so only able to stand with the aid of a staff, his faith was yet untouched by the slight- est symptom of decay. ‘‘The idea of προσκυνεῖν is that of reverence shown in posture” (Vaughan). Here Jacob “ wor- shipped ” in thankful remembrance of the promise of God and that his son had accepted it.