Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

G. T(d ^ko *«ti Trxrp). " To Him who is God and Father." Christ, having ac- complished the great work intrusted to Him by His Father, by conducting the elect to glory, will deliver over the Church triumphant to the Father, with whom and the Holy Ghost, in the unity of the Godhead, He reigns for ever, for " of His kingdom there shall be no end." Luke i. 33. " Until He shall do all these things. He must reign, not as if He should cease to reign after He has accom- plished them." St. Chrysostom.

With human views — as men engage in such a struggle. We have no other statement of this fact ; but the language of the apostle presents no appearance of figure. His Roman citizenship may have been overlooked by the infuriated multitude, or the rulers ; and he may have been condemned as a notorious male- factor, to die combating with wild beasts in the amphitheatre of Ephesus. He must have been miraculously preserved. The tumult of Demetrius and the gold- smiths had not happened when this epistle was written.

G. P. " there is one kind o/ flesh of men." The iQvva. flesh is wanting in six of the chief manuscripts, and several ancient versions.

G. P. " the flesh." This is wanting in three manuscripts, and in the Peschito version.

The sun, moon, and stars.

G. P. " this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and." This clause is wanting in the Ethiopic and Coptic versions, and is omitted by Irenseus and Athanasius, in quoting this verse.