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Heb_10:27. Φοβερὰ δέ τις ἐκδοχὴ κρίσεως ] sc. ἀπολείπεται : but there remains indeed, etc. The ἀπολειπόμενον is of two kinds, something subjective ( φοβερὰ … κρίσεως ) and something objective ( πυρὸς … ὑπεναντίους ).
φοβερὰ ἐκδοχὴ κρίσεως ] denotes not “a terrible banquet of judgment,” as Ewald strangely translates it, nor is it any hypallage in the sense of ἐκδοχὴ κρίσεως φοβερᾶς , as Jac. Cappellus, Heinrichs, and Stengel suppose, and to which the choice is left open by Wolf. The terribleness is transferred to the subjective domain of the expectation. For one who has sinned against better light and knowledge, even the expectation of the divine judgment is something terrible.
φοβερά τις ] an exceedingly terrible one. On the τις , added with rhetorical emphasis to adjectives of quality or quantity, comp. Kühner, II. p. 331; Winer, Gramm., 7 Aufl. p. 160.
κρίσις ] is used here, too, as Heb_9:27, quite without restriction, of the divine judgment in general. That this will be a punitive judgment is not indicated by the word; it only follows from the connection.
In the second member the emphasis rests upon the preposed πυρός , on which account also the case of the following participle conforms itself to this, not to ζῆλος . We cannot, therefore, with Luther and others, combine together πυρὸς ζῆλος in a single notion (“fiery zeal,” sc. of the divine wrath). The πῦρ is personified, and in such way a ζῆλος , a fury, ascribed to the same. There was probably present to the mind of the author in connection with the last member, LXX. Isa_26:11 : ζῆλος λήψεται λαὸν ἀπαίδευτον καὶ νῦν πῦρ τοὺς ὑπεναντίους ἔδεται .
τοὺς ὑπεναντίους ] the adversaries. The empiric usage of the term forbids our attaching to it, with Braun and Paulus, on account of the ὑπό , the notion of secret foes. See Meyer on Col. ii.14, 4 Aufl. p. 331.