,·. 22; Ool. iii. 18; Titus ii Ii: 1 Pet. saye, •o ll<t>.. 1,,...{...,,,., ,.., "The serpenl 11i. l). beguiled me." Juet u in Gal. iii. 16 he Ver. 12.-Permit for w,ffer, A.V.; hafle reasons from ,,.,,.,pµa.,., being in the singular ·lnminion for .,,,,,rp a11rlwrity, A.V.; a fot the, number, and aR the writer· to the Hebrews A.\". : quie/11Pe~ for 81'.lenee. A. V. Permit. (vii. 3) reasons from the 8il.ence of Oen. xiv. Why " permit" is betoor than "suffer" it regarding the parentage of Melchizedek. ie difficult t.o see. 'E,,.,.,.p.,,..,• is rendered Buther (in loo.) saye that this mode or "eutfer" in the R.V. in Matt. Yiii. 21 : xix. 1'81U!oning is peculiar to allegorical interpre• 8; 1\111.J'k x. 4; Luke ix. 59, et.o. Quiotness te.tion. (see preceding note). The trne type of the Ver. 15.-But for notwithstanding, A. V;; womanly attitude is that of Mary, who "sat through the ehild-bearing for in eh11d-bearing, at J eslll!' feet, and heard his Word" (Luke A.V.; lot,e for charity, A.V.; sanctificatio-11 x. :-18). for holiness, A.V. She shall be saved; i.e. Ver. 13.-Was formed (J..->..dcrB.,,). The the womon generically. The traneition from word used in the LXX. in Gen. ii. 7, "E1r>..acr•" the personal Efle to the generic woman is ,l 0,.\, .,.;,. 6.v8po,,rov, tc.T.>.., "The Lord God further marked by the transition from the formed man out of the dust of the ground;" eingule.r to the plum!, "if they continue," un.i in Gen. ii. 19 of the beasts of the field; etc. The natural and simple ex plo.ne.tion whence the word ,rpo,TtJ-n-A.a<T'Tos (Wisd. vii. of the passage is that the special temporal l : L I), " first made; " " first formed," punishment pronounced age.inst the woman, A.Y. So in Rom. ix. 20 man is called .,-/J immediately after her sin, "In sorrow she.It 1r>..&.crµ.a., "the thing made;" and God is 6 thou bring forth children" (Gen. iii. 16)-(to Il,\aaa,, "he that m1tde it." "Plaster," which St. Paul here evidently alludes}-and "plastic," "protoplasm," are, or colll'l!e, from endured by all women ever since, wae a aet- the 11ame rooL (For the argument, see the off, so to speak, to the special guilt of Eve very similar one in I Cor. xi. 8, 9.) in yielding to the guile of the serpent; so Ver. 14.-Beguiled (twice) for deceifJed, that now the woman might attain salvation A.V.; hath /alum into for wa, in the, A. V. as well as the man (although she was not Beguiled (111ra-r1,e.,, ). The same word as is suffered to tesoh) if she continued in faith used,,in, ~n. ~ 13, "The serpent beguil~ and charity. The child-bearing (..-ij, -r•,cvo• me; T/'ff"trn/tr• ,u, LXX. (comp. 2 Cor. n -yovias) ; here only; butthe verb ..-ercvo-yovl.., 3, where the verb 118ed is ,t.,,,,.,fr.,,cr,.,). which OOClll'B in eh. v. 14, is found (though Rath fallen into tra.nsgreuion. Fell ( not very rarely) in classical Greek. The equiva- hath fallen) is the right teuse t.o 1ll!e here in lent, both in the LXX. and in classical En:dish, though the Greek perfect, it is Greek, is TE1<1101ra,lo,. The reference to the true, contains the further idea of continuanctJ birth of Christ-the Seed of the woman- in the fall, as in l Cor. ix. 22 ; xiiL 11 ; 1 which some commentators (Hammoud, Peile, These. ii I; 2 Pet. ii 20. So also Matt. i. Wordeworth, Ellicott, etc.; not Bengel, Al- 22 ; xi..x.. 8; xxi. 4; xxv. 6; Mark v. 33; ford, or the German school generally) see John i. 3; 2 Cor. L 19; and elsewhere, -y•• here, is rather strained, and anyhow cannot -yov• is Lest rendered by the past (not the be proved without an inspired interpreter. perfect) tense. It has frequently the notion The stress which is le.id by some of the of transition int.o a certain condition (see above on the use of the definite article here Rom. vL 5 ; vii. 13; I Cor. ix. 22; xiii. 11 ; has no justification (see e.g. 2 Pet. i. 5-7, 2 Cor. v. 17; xiL 11; Gal iv. 16, etc.). where even the R.V. does not think of Bishop Ellicott gives the passages in which translating " the virtue," "the knowledge,'' -yi-yvoµ.a, is followed, as here, by ,,, (Luke "the tempera.11ce," etc.). Nor is the mean- xxiL 44 ; Acts xxii. I 7; 2 Cor. iii. 7 ; l ing of 3,d, which Alford and others press, The.s. ii. 5 ), "denoting entrance into, and "through,'' i.e. "in spite of," like 3111 ,rvpds cunti1111ance in, any _given state." As re- in I Cor. iiL 15, at 1111 probable from the con- gard.! the apostle's statement, Adam was text. Sanctification (a-y,acrµds; Rom. vi. 19; not beguiled, we must understand it as I Thess. iv. 3, etc.). Sobriety (cro,</'pocr6,,.,,); u...,-ed merely upon the text in Genesis to as in ver. 9. n only ooours b011idea in Act, which lul riofer11, in which Eve (not Adam) u:vi.25.
HOMILETICS. Vera. 1-16.-PubZie worship. The whole chapt.er Is given up t.o directiom concern- ing the public worship of the Church. We may notice the following particulars. I. 'l'RE SUB.JECTB OF PU11LIO PRAYER. When the Church meets tc>gether in the Ne.me of the Lord JesW1 Christ, it meete M pre-eminently the friend of the human race. As the Church of him who ill the world's Saviour and Hedeemer, it must manifest the IIILllie SJ!irit of universal love whi.ch animated him. It iB not 88 being hatera of the UII. D. 1-15.) THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. 87