ἐν φυλακῇ πνεύμα ε ὅτε ἀπεξεδέχετο 3
τέστι ὀκτὼ ψυχαὶ νῦν σώζει βάπτισμα που ἀλλὰ συνειδήσε
6ο
σιν πορευθεὶς 19 ἡ τοῦ OG 2ο
σκευαζοµένης κειβώ
διεσώθησαν δι’ ὕδα-
οὐ σαρ- 21
ως ἀγαθῆς ἐπερώτη
1 Dr. Rendel Harris would restore ἑνώχ after ἐν ᾧ καὶ (49), supposing that a scribe
has blundered “ in dropping some repeated letters’’ (a case of haplography).
See
Side-Lights on New Testament Research, p. 208. 2 Erasmus supposing an haplography read ἅπαξ ἐξεδέχετο for ἀπεξεδέχετο.
St. Peter limits it by adding while the Ark was being fitted out in accordance with Gen. If Adam’s transgression be taken as the origin οἱ sin the long-suffering is still greater. The idea seems to be due to ἐνεθυμήθην, I reflected, of the LXX, which stands for the unworthy anthropo- morphism of the Hebrew I repented in Gen. vi. 6. Compare for language Jas. v. 7; Matt. xxiv. 37 f.; Luke xvii. 26 {.--- eis Hv, sc. entered απᾶ.-- ὀλίγοι, κ.τ.λ. St. Peter hints that here in the typical narrative is the basis of the disciple’s question, et ὀλίγοι οἱ σωζόµε- νοι (Luke xiii. 23).- ὀκτὼ ψΨυχαί, so Gen. vii. 7; . = persons (of both sexes), cf. Acts ii. 41, etc. The usage occurs in
Greek of all periods; so {JH5 in He- brew and soul in English.—8veo 6 6 4- σαν δι ὕδατος, were brought safe through water. Both local and instru- mental meanings of δί are contemplated. The former is an obvious summary of the whole narrative; cf. also διὰ τὸ ὕδωρ (Gen. vii. 7). The latter is implied in the statement. that the water increased and lifted up the ark (ib. 17 f.) ; though it fits better the antitype. So Josephus (Ant. L, iii. 2) says that “the ark was strong so that from no side was it worsted by the violence of the water and Noah with his household διασῴζεται ”. Peter lays stress on the water (rather than the ark as ε.σ., Heb. xi.) for the sake of the parallel with Baptism (Rom. vi. 3; cf. St. Paul’s application of the Passage of the Red Sea, 1 Cor. x. 1 f.).
Ver. 21. Baptism is generally the antitype of the deliverance of Noah. Christians pass through water (in both senses) to salvation; in each microcosm are the sins which must be washed away and the remnant which is to be saved. Therefore the antitypical water saves us (8 = τὸ ὕδωρ > BC ὕδατος) being οὐ σαρκὸς, κ.τ.λ.; cf. Tit. iii. 5.--βάπτι- opa, if not an interpolation explains