S AM . 8:15; P S . 14:2 [15:2]; Z EPH . 2:3. C ONQUERORS USED THEIR SUCCESS FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF RIGHT . R IGHTEOUSNESS WAS SHEWN TO BE THE SOLID FOUNDATION OF ENDURING POWER : I S . 9:7; 54:14; 1 K INGS 10:9.
F OR THE PHRASE EJRGAVZ . DIKAIOSUVNHN COMPARE A CTS 10:35; (J AMES 1:20); M ATT . 7:23 ( AJNOMIVAN ); J AMES 2:9 ( AMARTIVAN ).
EJPEVTUCON EJPAGGELIWN ] V ICTORY WAS GAINED AND RIGHTLY USED IN JUST GOVERNMENT , AND SO IT WAS FOLLOWED BY A DEEPER APPREHENSION OF THE WILL OF G OD . T HE PHRASE EJPITUCEIN EJPAGGELIWN HAS BEEN NOTICED BEFORE , H EB . 6:15 NOTE .
I T APPEARS TO BE USED HERE IN THE MOST GENERAL SENSE , WHICH INCLUDES BOTH THE ATTAINMENT OF THAT WHICH HAD BEEN ALREADY PROMISED , AND THE QUICKENED EXPECTATION OF SOMETHING YET TO COME . E ACH PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF A DIVINE WORD IS ITSELF A PROPHECY . A PROMISE GAINED IS ALSO A PROMISE INTERPRETED IN A LARGER MEANING . H ERE THE TRUTH IS SET OUT IN ITS FULNESS . T HE MANY PROMISES SUCCESSIVELY REALISED IN MANY PARTS AND MANY FASHIONS LED UP TO THE ONE PROMISE (11:39) WHICH IS STILL HELD BEFORE THE EYE OF FAITH .
11:33 B , 34 A . T HE NOTICE OF PUBLIC , GENERAL , SUCCESSES IS FOLLOWED BY THE NOTICE OF PERSONAL DELIVERANCES .
EFRAXAN ST
.
L
.
] D
AN
. 6:22
EJNEVFRAXE TA STOVMATA TWN LEOVNTWN
T
HEOD
. (D
ANIEL
); 1 M
ACC
. 2:60. T
HERE MAY ALSO BE A REFERENCE TO
J
UDG
. 14:6
(S
AMSON
); 1 S
AM
. 17:34 (D
AVID
).
ESBESAN DUVN . P . ] D AN . 3; 1 M ACC . 2:59. T HE NATURAL FORCE OF THE ELEMENTS WAS OVERPOWERED ( COMP . W ISD . 19:6). OUJK EIPEN ESBESAN PUR , AJLLA D UVNAMIN PUROV ", O KAI MEIZON (T HEOPHLCT ).
EFUGON ST . MAC . ] E X . 18:4 (M OSES ). 1 S AM . 18:11; 19:10 FF .; 21:10; P S . 144:10 (D AVID ); 1 K INGS 19:1 FF . (E LIJAH ); 2 K INGS 6. (E LISHA ).
T HE PHRASE EJN STOVMATI MACAIVRA " ( ROMFAIVA ", XIVFOU " ) ( BR - A YPIL ) IS NOT UNCOMMON IN THE LXX. (Gen. 34:26). The plural ( stovmata ), which does not appear to occur elsewhere, expresses the many assaults of human violence answering in part to stovmata leovntwn .
Heb. 11:34 b. Examples of deliverance from external perils are followed by examples of personal strengthening.
ejdunam. ajpo; ajsq.
] This general phrase may be interpreted of various forms of physical weakness as in the case of Samson (Judg. 16:28 ff.); Hezekiah (Isa. 38); and of moral distress (Ps. 6:3, 8; Ps. 22:21 f.). For
ajpo; ajsqeneiva"
compare Luke 5:15; 8:2; and contrast 2 Cor. 13:4
ejx ajsqeneiva"
.
ejgen. ijsc. ejn p.
]
waxed mighty in war
, not only in the moment of battle, but in the whole conduct of the conflict. Ps. 18:34 ff.; 144:1 f. For
ijscuroiv
compare Luke 11:21 f.
paremb. e[kl. ajll
.] The addition of
ajllotrivwn
distinguishes this clause from
kathgwnivsanto basileiva"
and fixes the thought here on the religious contrast between the children of the kingdom and strangers (Matt. 17:25 f.). This sense of
klivnein
(
inclinare aciem
), which is found in classical Greek from Homer downwards, does not occur elsewhere in the N. T. or LXX.
The word parembolhv (like hn<j}m' , H4722, which it represents in the
LXX.) is used for an armed force as well as for a camp, the position which it occupies: Judg. 4:16; 8:10; Ezek. 1:24 (A); 1 Macc. 5:28.
Heb. 11:35 a. The triple triplet of victorious faith is followed by a single,