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2Co_6:18. Continuation of the promise begun with κἀγὼ εἰσδέξ . ὑμ ., and holding forth the holy compensation for the enjoined severance from an unholy intercourse with the heathen. The passage is most probably a free and enlarged quotation from 2Sa_7:14. It bears less resemblance to Jer_31:9, or even to Isa_43:6. And Jer_31:33; Jer_32:38, are quite out of the question, because there the sonship is not mentioned. Cajetanus conjectured as to a writing now lost, just as Ewald finds, from κἀγώ onwards, a passage now unknown to us; according to Grotius, the words are ex hymno aliquo celebri apud Hebraeos. The freedom of the N. T. writers in using probative passages from the O. T. renders both hypotheses unnecessary; of the latter no instance can be shown in Paul, and in itself it is arbitrar.
κύριος παντοκράτωρ ] “ex hac appellatione perspicitur magnitudo promissionum,” Bengel; rather, on account of the specific contents of παντοκ .: the unquestionable certainty of the fulfilment (Rom_4:21; 2Co_9:8, al.), which no power can hinder. Used only here by Paul (often in the Apocal.), who has, however, taken it from 2Sa_7:8, LXX., where λέγει κυρ . παντοκρ . introduces the divine utterance.