The Pulpit Commentary — Proverbs — Section 148

u:i. 5.) It ma, also have reference to the sentence. The Hebrew l,rnah is '' jealousy" punishment inflicted by the Law. In the as in eh. xxvii. 4, " Who is able to stnnd LXX. the idea is expressed by b6.lv«r, i.e. before envy?" or, as margin, "jealousy.'' "pnins," and so gfres colour to Lapidc's ex- 'l'hc ordinary copulative verb "is" is best planRtion of" afflictions of every kind." The understood as connecting the subjeot 11nd VulgRte gives f\ moral turn to the meaning, the predicate;" the rage of a man," Hebrew •md co-ordinates the word with "dishonour:" kiirniilh·gavi!r, as abo"e, i.e. "the glow of o. Ttt-rpilttd.inem et ignomi'.nfrrm cang1·egat sibi, man's anger" (Delitzsch) or "n mnn's "Di,.,honottr is the ii::-,10minious treatment he fierc~ anger" (Zuckler). J~nlousy awakens will receive on all hnnds." The sccon,i part and rnflames the wrath nnd anu-er of a man or of the verse states tllRt a brand of disgrace husband to its highest pitcl1. It evokes will be nttache,l to his na.mc which will be tho strongest feelings for reven"e. 0 Man; perpetual. not confined to this life only, but Hebrew, gavi!r, equivalent to ish, " a man," extending beyond it, so that men will never in opposition to "a wife"-" a husband," a.a recall it but with this stigma (Patrick, here. The word is chiefly found in poetry. Mcrcerus). On shall be . . . wiped au,ay Its derivation, from ga·ciir, "to be strong," (Hebrew, timmal.lh, the niph. future of serves to bring out the idea also of the makhiih. •• to wipe off, or away," and in hiph. intensity or force of the jealousy-it burns •· to be blotted out," equiva.leut to the La.tin or rages with all the might of the man. delere), see Dent. xxv. 6; Ezek. vi. 6; Judg. The latter part of the verse in the Hebrew xxi. 17. The LXX. renders i{a.>..,up/hi1T<Ta1, is simply, "and he will not spare (v'l/J- and adds, ,is .,-bv aiwva., "for ever." The yii.kh'm/Jl) in the day of vengeance." The statements of the verse are illustrated by Authorized Version "therefore" serves to Horace, 1 Satires,' lib. i. 2. 37, who describes bring out tbe deduction, though it does not the dangers and mishaps which befall the occur in the original. . He will not spare; adulterer a.nd fornicator. i.e. the injured husband will not show any "Hie se prrecipitem tecto dedit; ille clemency or mercy to the adulterer, the man flagellis who has wronged. him so deeply. In the Ad mortem cieslll! : fugiens hie decidit day of vengeance; Hebrew, b'y/Jm 11aluim. e.crem The expression may refer to the time when Prreclonum in turba.m: dedit hie pro co:r- the adulterer is brought before the judges, pore nummos." but more probably to every occasion on which the husband ce.n exercise his ven- Ver. 34.-For jealollSJ is the rage of a geance. So Gejerus. For the expression, man : therefore he will not spare in the of. Isa. xxxiv. 8, "The clay of the Lord's day of vengeance. The first hemistich is vengeance;" Job xx. 28, "The day of his adduced ns a reason for what ha.a preceded, wrath;" and eh. xi. 4, "The day of wrath.'' while the concluding hemistich and the Jealousy id implacable (see Song of Solomon following 11nd last verses are a. deduction viii. 6, "Jealousy is cruel as the grave"). strengthening what has heen stated before, Ver. 35.-He will not regard any ransom; and also showing that the punishment will neither will he rest content, though thou be inevitable. The general consensus of com- givest many gifts. No recompense or mentators and texts is to connect the two atonement, nor any gifts however great, hemistiches of this verse. Thus the LXX., will buy him off. 'l'hese are supposed to MEIT'Th-yap (,171.ov 6vµ.os a.v5pos avr,jr, ob ,p,IIT.. be offered by the adulterer to the enraged .,-a., iv 11µ.fp~ KpllT,.,s, "For the wrath of her husband, who, however, will never rest till husl•and filled with jealousy shall not spa.re he effects the utter ruin of his injurer. The in tbe clay of judgment;" the Vulgate, literal rendering of the :first hemi,tich is, Quia zelus et furor viri non parcet in d'ie "He will not accept the face of any rnusom." ,,indicta,, " For the jealousy and rage of The phrase nasa phanim is equivalent to a man shall not spare in the day of ven- the Greek ,.-po1Tw1rov 'Aaµf)&v«v, aml signifies geance;" tl,e Syrinc, Nam guia Juror mariti "to give a favourable reception to. the ont- 1,le1111s est zelotypia non parcet in die retribu- ward expression of 1111y one." The figure tionis, "For because rage of a husband is is taken from lifting ur the face of a sup- full of jealousy he shall not spare in the pliant, the radical mca11i11g of the verb day of retribution." So the Arabic, and oosti being "to take up," "to lift up." the 'figurina Versio, a.nd among the com- The f'ansom; Hebrew, laJphlfr (the wo1-d mentators Durandus. Dathe, Doderlein, usually applied to desij1:n11to the price of Holden. But the Hebrew simply makes redemption, mulct, or fine demanded for the ~tatement, l;i-lcrmah ldilimiith-yliur, qttia expiation of a. crime; seo Exod. -xxi. 30; %elus excandescentia vfri, i.e., as in the xxx. 12; Numb. xxxv. 31. 32); l,c1·0 the Authorized Versiou, "for jealousy is the bribe offered liy the adulterer to be lut off rage of a man;" ki, <•quivaleut to the Greek will bealtogctlier rejeclecl, however alluring, -yap, "fur," und krnuh is the subjrct c,f the the word p'ncy, "fo1.:c," ca.rrying with it tlu1  THE PROVERBS. 130