who loved me, and gave himself up for me." He did not spare himself all the humilia- 1ion of the death of the cross. That is a. fact which rcquirns to be contemplated; but, as it is contemplated, it asserts its power over hearts, so as to make the insensate feel, the unbelieving believe. Now, the apostle regards it as glorious testimony to the greatness of the mystery that Christ should actually be believed on in the world, that there should be some trophies of the power of bis love over unbelief, that there should be some to offer him a home in their hearts. " Received up in glory." In the biographies of great men we are told of one achievement gained after another, of one honour conferred after another. But however long and glorious the scroll which can be shown, it has to end with their bidding a long farewell to all their greatness. And, though monuments a.re raised to •.heir memory, it cannot te.ke away the essential ingloriuu,ness of the termination t,1 their career. With Christ it is at the earthly termination that to outward appearance he becomes great. He had indeed, like others and more than others, to undergo the ingloriousness of dying, a.nd of being la.id in the tomb. But that inglorioumess was completely reversed by his resurrection. He lingered lung enough on earth for history to attest the fact that he wa.s indeed risen. And then he made bis t1iumpbal entry into heaven. "Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea., the Lord will dwell in it for ever. The· 1be.riot.<; of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, is in Sinai, in the holy place. 1'bou hast asce:..Jed on high, thou br.st led c11.ptivity ;aptive." He was received up into gJ .. ry-into glorious exaltation in our nature at the right hand of God-and in glory he for ever remains. '!'his is conclUsive evidence to the greatness of the mystery. The g0<Hy J.elight to dwell upon and to feed their life, not lillly with the humiliation, but, beyond that, with the ex.altation.-R. F.
EXPOSITION• ..-tlv-row, xxii. 27). Here, therefore, Iv ll<1-rl- CHAPTER IV. po,s rca,pois is equivalent to;., -rai's l<1xd-rau Ver. l.-But for no·,,,, A. V. ; saith for 11µ.lpa,s (Acts ii. 17) u.nd ;., '"xd-rau fiµ.lpau •peaketh, A.V. ; later for the latter, A. V. ; (2 Tim. ii 1. l; comp. Je.s. v. 3; I Pet. i. 5; fall au·ay for depart, A. V. The Spirit se.ith 2 Pet. iii. 3; Jude ·18). It should be expressly (/,71-rws); ouly here in the N cw observed that in all th,•ee passages there T,•titaruent, e.nd very ra1·e in classical Greek. is no article. Giving heed (1rpo<1•xo,,,,.u); But the adjective f,71-r&s, in tLe sense of as in ver. 13 ; in eh. i. 4; Titus i. H ; t;Omething •· le.id down," "detinile," "ex- Aets viii. 6, and elsewhere. Beduoing spirits pre:si;ly mentioned," is common. It was, (,n,,6µ.a<11 1rll.dvo,s). Such. were the "lying doubtless, on e.ccount of these prophetic spirits" who deceived (lj..-tl-r71<1,u,) Ahab to warnings of a falling a.way from tl,e faith, his destruction (2 Kings xxii. 22). n11.tlvos, that the apostle gave the preceding heada seducing, is n.ot el;ewhere found in the uf Christian doc Lrine in such e. terse and NPw Testament as an adjective (see Malt. taugi ble form, e.nd l,lid such e. solemn charge xxvii. 63; 2 Cor. vi. 8; 2 John 7, in a.II upon Timothy. (For examples of these which place,, however, it is almost a.n prophetic utte, e.ncee, see Act• .xL 28; xiii adjective). The idea is" causing to wander," 2; XX. 23 ; xxi. I l ; 1 Cor. rii. 8; xiv. 30, or" go astray." St. Jol,n warus hie people 32, etc.) Bh.e.11 fall e.we.y (a.1roCTTtj(IOVTa1). against such deceiving spirits (John iv. So St. Paul se.ye (2 TLese. ii 3) that the 1-6). He calls them generically ..-vd,µ4 day of CLrist will not be, " except the -rijs 1rl\dv71s, "the spirit of enor." Dootrines folliug e.we.y (11 a.1rorT-rarT(a) come first" (.comp. of devils; i.e. teachings suggested by devils Heb. iii. I:!). The fe.itb.; objective (see eh. So tLe unbelieving Jewe suggested that iii. !I a11d lo, nol.e). This "falling a.way " John the Baptist-had a devil (Luke vii. 33). i8 to take JJlace Ev l,cr,,,.Epou Ka.,pols ; not, as and that our Lord himself had a devil in the R.V., in "later times," but as in (John vii. 20; viii. 48, 52; x. 19). ILe A.V.," the latter t,w,·•." TJ,e e..Jjective Ver. 2.-Througlt the hypom·iB1f of men uo-T<pos is only found Lere in the New that speak lies for speaking lies in ltypocriB!J, Te,tawn,t. But in tLe LXX. (e.g. 1 Chron. A.V.; branded in their own conscience aa ui.L 2:i; Jer. l. l!I [xxvii 17, LXX.J), with for having their conscience seared with, uunpos means " the lo.st," 11,11 opposed to A.V. Through the hypooriay of men, etc. " tr.e first." And so the ad v.-rb u<1npov The construction is rather obscure, as the e.11,;,ys in the New Test1.1.ment (sc,e Matt. i,. moHt obvious way of construing is the.t of 2 ; x..:d. 37 ; .u:vi. 60; or more fully ~n,pov tLe A.V., whei:e ,j,,v6&J\o-y111v must e.gree with OIL ff. 1-18.] THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. 89