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Mat 11:10. Οὗτος γάρ ἐστι, κ.τ.λ., for this is he, etc.) This makes John much greater than that what is spoken of[518] in Mat 11:7-8, could.-ἸΔΟῪ ἘΓῺ ἈΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ ΤῸΝ ἌΓΓΕΛΌΝ ΜΟΥ ΠΡῸ ΠΡΟΣΏΠΟΥ ΣΟΥ, Ὃς ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΆΣΕΙ ΤῊΝ ὉΔΌΝ ΣΟΥ ἜΜΠΡΟΣΘΈΝ ΣΟΥ, behold I send my messenger before Thy face, which shall prepare Thy way before Thee) In the S. V. of Mal 3:1, we read, ἰδοὺ ἐξαποστελῶ τὸν ἄγγελόν Μου, καὶ ἐπιβλέψεται ὀδὸν πρὸ προσώπου Μου, καὶ ἐξαίφνης ἥξει, κ.τ.λ., behold I will send forth My messenger, and he shall survey the road before My face, and suddenly shall arrive, etc.-Ἐγὼ, I) The Father addressing the Son.-τὸν ἄγγελόν Μου, My messenger) John was sent by God as a messenger, after whom came the Messenger of the Covenant Himself.-πρὸ προσώπου Σου, before Thy face) Immediately before Thee. The LXX. have ἐξαίφνης (immediately) in the passage just quoted. John was not a prophet of distant events.-See Luk 1:76. The advent of the Father and of the Son are the same, and so is the language which applies to them. It is one of the strongest arguments for the divinity of Christ, that those things which are said of Christ in the New Testament are quoted from the Old Testament, where they are predicated as exclusively belonging to God.-See Gnomon on Joh 12:41; Act 2:33; Rom 9:33; Rom 14:11; 1Co 1:31; 1Co 10:9; Eph 4:8; Heb 1:6; Heb 1:8; Heb 1:10-11; Rev 1:8; Rev 1:17.
[518] viz. His being “a reed shaken by the wind,” or “a man clothed in soft raiment.”-See Gnomon in loc.-(I. B.)