ii. 5) are used, and alpw, to take up and carry away, occurs only in the phrase his life is taken from the earth, A.V., he was cut off out of the land of the living, in accordance with the universal usage of the Septuagint, which never employs aipew to express the bearing of sin. If the Baptist had meant bearing, he would probably have used dépw. Compare 1 John iii. 5: “He was manifested to take away (iva dpy) our sins,” and 1 John i. 7, ‘‘cleanseth us from all sin.” In the use of the present tense, taketh, the Baptist views the future consummation of Christ’s atoning work as potentially present.
The sin (tv duaptiav). Collectively regarded. World. See on ver. 9.
30. Of whom (nrepi 0d) ; ie., “concerning whom ;” but the proper reading is b7rép od, “on behalf of whom ;” in vindication
of.
A man (avjp). Three words are used in the New Testa- ment for man: dppnv or apony, avyp, and avSpwmes. “Aponv marks merely the seawal distinction, male (Rom. i. 27; Apoc. xii. 5, 13). ’Avjp denotes the man as distinguished from the woman, as male or as a husband (Acts viii. 12; Matt. i. 16), or from a boy (Matt. xiv. 21). Also man as endowed with courage, intelligence, strength, and other noble attributes (1 Cor. xiii. 11; Eph. iv. 13; Jas. ili. 2).
“AvSpwros is generic, without distinction of sex, a human being (John xvi. 21), though often used in connections which indicate or imply sex, as Matt. xix. 10; x. 35. Used of man- kind (Matt. iv. 4), or of the people (Matt. v. 13, 16; vi. 5, 18; John vi. 10). Of man as distinguished from animals or plants (Matt. iv. 19; 2 Pet. ii. 16), and from God, Christ as divine and angels (Matt. x. 32; John x. 33; Luke ii. 15). With the notion of weakness leading to sin, and with a contemptuous sense (1 Cor. ii. 5; 1 Pet. iv. 2; John v. 12; Rom. ix. 20). The more honorable and noble sense thus attaches to avyjp rather than to dvIpwmos. Thus Herodotus says that when the Medes charged the Greeks, they fell in vast numbers, so that