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43 Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7-15. cxlii., Isa. xi. 1-3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii 6, Wisd. I. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14. 15, Acts xiii. 2, Rom. iv. 17, xv. 16, 19, 1 Cor. ii. 10, vi. 19, viii. 2, 2 Cor. iii. 1, 6, xiii. 4, 2 Thess. iii. 5, 1 Tim. vi. 10, Heb. ix. 14.
48 e'pi\ perioph=j; Billius renders "In specula sua," "On His watch tower," and the meaning is admissible, but the context seems rather to point to the passive sense of Majesty or Glory. The word is not in the Lexicon, and Suicer does not notice it; but the corresponding adjective has only the passive sense. Specula, however, is used in the sense of Eminence, but apparently only geographically.
63 The Hebrew word means "a cultivator of sycamores." The LXX. rendering is due to the process of maturing the fruit, which grows on the stem of the trunk, and is made to mature by puncturing it with an iron instrument, when after three days the fruit is fit to eat. The Hebrew word occurs only this once in the Bible; Aquila renders it by "Looking for;" Symmachus by "propping with stakes."
69 The actual order of the words in the Greek of Acts ii. 6 is, They heard each individual in his own dialect them speaking; so that the position of the comma affects the meaning.
73 Arians, Macedonians, and Kindred sects.
10 On behalf of, i.e., the Christians of Constantinople, whose Pastor he had been, who were present at the time in the church.
20 Nebuchadnezzar, i.e., Julian.