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Heb_11:29. Comp. Exo_14:22 ff.
Πίστει ] Oecumenius: ἐπίστευσαν γὰρ διαβήσεσθαι καὶ διέβησαν · τοσοῦτον οἶδεν ἡ πίστις καὶ τὰ ἀδύνατα δυνατὰ ποιεῖν .
διέβησαν ] namely, the Israelites under Moses.
ὡς διὰ ξηρᾶς γῆς ] as through dry, firm land. The less usual διά with the genitive, alternating with the ordinary accusative in connection with διαβαίνειν , was probably occasioned by the reading of the LXX. Exo_14:29 ( οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπορεύθησαν διὰ ξηρᾶς ἐν μέσῳ τῆς θαλάσσης ).
ἧς πεῖραν λαβόντες οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι κατεπόθησαν ] in the essaying of which the Egyptians were drowned.
ἧς refers back to τὴν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν , not, as Böhme, Kuinoel, Klee, Stein, Stengel, Bloomfield, Delitzsch, Kurtz suppose, to ξηρᾶς γῆς . For the former is the main thought, of which the readers are reminded anew by κατεπόθησαν , whereas ὡς διὰ ξηρᾶς contains only a subsidiary feature, attached by way of comparison.
πεῖραν λαμβάνειν τινός stands here in the active sense. Otherwise Heb_11:36.
καταπίνεσθαι , however (comp. Exo_15:4), is a more general expression for the more definite καταποντίζεσθαι , which latter ( κατεποντίσθησαν ) is found also in our passage, in some cursives, as likewise with Chrysostom and Theodoret.