3 S. B. add kai\ kate/sthsaj au0to\n e0pi\ ta\ e@rga tw=n xeirw=n sou. This clause is omitted from the text of the Epistle by critical editors of the New Testament, and is not commented on by St. Chrysostom. [It is bracketed by Lu., Tr., W. H., and the Basle ed., but retained in the Revision.-F. G.]
6 di' ou[, see above, note 4, p. 366.
7 suffering perfects and works salvation.
10 This citation is connected with "they are of one," the intervening words, "Then again...salvation," being introduced parenthetically.
12 Cf. St. Iren. pp. 450, 482, 497, O. T.
13 i.e. the Incarnation. [oi0konomi/a is not so much the Incarnation as the whole arrangement of the Christian dispensation-here with especial reference to Christ's death.-F. G.]
15 The word includes the ideas of being patient, as well as of thinking and speaking deep things.
17 kosmikai=j kai\ kosmikoi=j.
19 The hired wailers were heathens and not present: St Chrys. hints at having some corporal punishment inflicted on them.
3 poih/saj. Referring to what is implied in ver. 2, that Moses was faithful to Him that made him.
5 St. Chrys. had mentioned hills (bounoi;) as called to witness by God: in the verse preceding this (Mic. vi. 1) occur the words, "let the hills hear Thy voice"; and this verse itself runs, "Hear ye hills" (bounoi;) according to the Alexandrine mss. of the LXX. or "ye mountains" (o@rh according to the Vatican), "the judgment of the Lord, and ye ravines," &c.