PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 2
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 731,986 words · 1069 reading sections
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659 οὗ πάντες k Here only; yap 3 Jas. i. = pe 24. πάντες τέκνα, GAN’ “ἐν Ἰσαὰκ κληθήσεταί σοι σπέρμα”. 8. τοῦτ' 1Ch.xi.1;2 ἔστιν, οὗ τὰ τέκνα τῆς σαρκός, ταῦτα τέκνα τοῦ Θεοῦ" ἀλλὰ τὰ m τέκνα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας Cor. xi.22; John viii, 3) 37. λογίζεται eis σπέρµα. 9g. ἐπαγγελίας γὰρ ον. ~ n Gen. xviii. 6 λόγος ο…
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Ver. 8f. τοῦτ) ἔστιν: the meaning of this action of God is now made clear. It signifies that flot mere bodily descent from Abraham makes one a child of God —that was never the case, not even in Abraham’s time ; it is the children of the promise who are reckoned a seed to Abraham, for the word in virtue of which …
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οὐ µόνον δέ: cf. ν. 11, vili. 23=Not only is this so, but a more striking and convincing illustration can be given. ἀλλὰ καὶ “PeBéxxa: the sentence thus begun is never finished, but the sense is ὁ μείζων δουλεύσει τῷ ἐλάσσονι 661 13. καθὼς] γέγραπται, “ Tov ᾿Ιακὼβ ἠγάπησα, τὸν δὲ ᾿Ησαῦ ἐμίσησα”. 14. Τί οὖν ἐρο…
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Vv. 14-21. In the second part of his theodicy Paul meets the objection that this sovereign freedom of God is essenti- ally unjust. Ver. 14. τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; cf. vi. 1, vii. 7, vill. 31. It is Paul who speaks, anticipating, as he cannot help doing, the objection which is sure to rise, not only in Jewish minds, th…
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ITO, being used in the sense of ‘thou wast kept alive’’—the sense adopted by Dillmann for the Hebrew ; probably Paul changed it intentionally to give the meaning, ‘‘for this reason I brought thee on the stage of history ”’: ο. abs 1: (6, “Zeer xd. 10, erm. 41 (S. and H.). The purpose Pharaoh was designed to ser…
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663 µέμφεται "; τῷ γὰρ βουλήματι * αὐτοῦ tls ἀνθέστηκε; 20. μενούνγε, ὦ w Heb. viii. ἄνθρωπε.] ” σὺ τίς et 6 ἀνταποκρινόμενος * τῷ O€G ; μὴ ἐρεῖ τὸ πλάσμα * Actsxxvii. ~ , τῷ πλάσαντι, Τί µε ἐποίησας οὕτως; 21. ἢ οὐκ ἔχει ἐξουσίαν 6 43; 1 Pet. iv. 3. y Ch. ii. 1-3 c kepapets* τοῦ πηλοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ φυράµατος …
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Ver. 21. ἢ οὐκ ἔχει ἐξουσίαν 6 κερα- μεὺς τοῦ πηλοῦ κ.τ.λ. ΤΠεῆ puts this as the alternative. Either you must recognise this absoluteness ot God in silence, oy you must make the pre- posterous assertion that the potter has not power over the clay, ete. The power of the potter over the clay is of course undoubte…
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Ver. 23 f. The sentence beginning with εἰ δὲ θέλων is not grammatically completed, but ver. 23 is an irregular parallel to ver. 22. God’s purpose is regarded as twofold. It is on the one hand to show His wrath and make known His power; it is on the other hand to make known the riches of His glory (cf. Eph. iii.…
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666 k Here (and μα). ο. Mark xill. or κατάλειμμα |" σωθήσεται ᾿ 28. λόγον γὰρ συντελῶν! καὶ συντέµνων”' ἐν _ δικαιοσύνῃ * ὅτι λόγον συντετμηµένον 3 ποιήσει Κύριος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς”. 20. Καὶ καθὼς προείρηκεν Ἡσαΐας, “Ei μὴ Κύριος Σαβαὼθ ἐγκατέ- 4; Luke λιπεν ἡμῖν σπέρµα, ὡς Σόδοµα ἂν ἐγενήθημεν, καὶ ὡς Γόμοῤῥα ἂν ἵν…
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28—32. ὡμοιώθημεν”.) 30. Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; ὅτι ἔθνη τὰ μὴ” διώκοντα δικαιοσύνην κατέλαβε} δικαιοσύνην, δικαιοσύνην δὲ τὴν ἐκ πίστεως ° > AY x / , , > , ΄ 1 5 21. ᾿Ισραὴλ δὲ διώκων νόµον δικαιοσύνης εἰς νόµον δικαιοσύνης Ἰ οὐκ Ἰφθασε." 24; Phil. iii. 12, 17. 2. Stati; ὅτι οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως, GAN ὡς: ἐξ ἔργων νόµου”. 3…
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Ver. 32. διὰ τί; Why? Aresult so confounding needs explanation. ὅτι οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἐξ ἔργων: it seems too precise to supply with Weiss ἐδίωξεν vépov δικαιοσύνης. The reason of Israel's religious failure was that its whole re- ligious effort and attitude was not of faith, but (so they conceived the case) …
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Ver. 2. Their good qualities compel his affection. {ῆλον θεοῦ ἔχουσιν: they have a zeal for God, are intensely (though mistakenly) religious. Cf. Gal. i. 14. An unbelieving Jew could inter- pret his opposition to the lawless gospel of Paul as zeal for the divinely-given tule of life, and his opposition to the c…
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In ver. 5 ff. Paul describes more fully, and in Ο.Τ. terms, the two Ways of attaining δικαιοσύνη---ἶανν and faith. His aim 1s to show that they are mutu- ally exclusive, but that the latter is open and accessible to all. Ver. 5. Μωυσῆς γὰρ γράφει: Moses’ authority is unimpeachable on this point. The righteousne…
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Ver. 8. ἐγγύς σου τὸ ῥῆμά ἐστιν... Tour ἔστιν τὸ ῥῆμα τῆς πίστεως ὃ κηρύσσομεν. What is in the lips of the preacher is near to all who hear. In Deut. the word is of course the Mosaic law; here it is the Gospel, the word which deals with that πίστις on which 5-11. 671 . ἁ hs - us ἄβυσσον; τοῦτ ἔστι Χριστὸν ἐκ …
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Ver. 10. καρδίᾳ γὰρ πιστεύεται εἰς δικαιοσύνην, στόµατι δὲ ὁμολογεῖται εἰς σωτηρίαν. The parallelism is like that in the previous verse, though the order of the clauses is reversed. To be saved one must attain δικαιοσύνη, and this depends on heart-faith ; such faith, again, leading to salvation, must confess its…
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Ver. 13. For every one who invokes. the name of the Lord shall be saved. The words are from Joel iii. 5 (= ii. 32 LXX). ‘The Lord” in the original is Jehovah; here, manifestly, Christ—a proof how completely Christ stands in God’s place in all that concerns salva- tion. Ver. 14 f. Itis difficult to trace very c…
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673 Xwpis κηρύσσοντος; 15. πῶς δὲ κηρύξουσιν,! ἐὰν μὴ ἀποσταλῶσι ; καθὼς γέγραπται, “ Ὡς dpator οἱ πόδες τῶν εὐαγγελιζομένων εἰρήνην,: τῶν εὐαγγελιζομένων τὰ ἀγαθά”. 16. "ANN οὐ πάντες " ὑπήκουσαν n Acts vi 7. ~ , ~ ~ .. τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ᾿ “Hoatas γὰρ λέγει, “'' Κύριε, τίς ἐπίστευσε τῇ ° ἀκοῇ οι Thess.ii. ἡμῶν; 17. …
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there has not been a universal surrender tothe Gospel. οὐ πάντες: the Jews are present to the writer’s mind here, though the words might apply more widely; hence the compassionate mode of state- ment. Cf. iii. 3: εἰ ἠπίστησάν τινες. Yet this quantum of unbelief does not discomfit the Apostle; for it also, as we…
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“eis πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν & φθόγγος αὐτῶν, καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ς lal > pCh. xi14; ῥήματα αὐτῶν”. 1 Cor. x. 22. 19. ᾽Αλλὰ λέγω, Μὴ οὐκ ἔγνω Ισραήλ; πρῶτος Μωσῆς λέγει, “'᾿Ἐγὼ Ρπαραζηλώσω ὑμᾶς ἐπ᾽ οὐκ έἔθνει, ἐπὶ ἔθνει 1 Ισραηλ before ουκ εγνω ΝΑΒΟΡΣ ΣΕ. That which when heard is ἀκοὴ is when s…
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* The part of Isa. Ixv. 1 which is not quoted here (I said, Behold Me, behold Me, unto a nation that was not called by My name) is meant, as usually pointed, to refer to the Gentiles, and this tradition of its application Paul may have learned from Gamaliel (Cheyne); but the pointing is wrong: see Cheyne. 18-41. ἀ…
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676 XI. 1. ΛΕΓΩ οὖν, Μὴ ἀπώσατο ὅ Θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὗτοί ; μὴ γένοιτο" a Phil iii 5. καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ Ἰσραηλίτης εἰμὶ, ἐκ σπέρματος Αβραὰμ, φυλῆς " Beviapiv. 4 cal 2. οὐκ ἀπώσατο 6 Θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, ὃν προέγνω. a ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ἐν Ἠλίᾳ τί λέγει ἡ γραφή ; ὡς ἐντυγχάνει τῷ Θεῷ κατὰ τοῦ Ισραὴλ, λέγων, 4. “Κύριε, τοὺς προ…
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τ--9. ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ 677 er | , Ὑέγονεν. 6. εἰ δὲ Χάριτι, οὐκ ἔτι ἐξ ἔργων ΄ ἐπεὶ ἡ χάρις οὐκ ἔτι γίνεται Χάρις. εἰ δὲ ἐξ ἔργων, οὐκ ἔτι ἐστὶ Χάρις ΄ ἐπεὶ τὸ ἔργον οὐκ ἔτι ἐστὶν Epyov. 7. Τί οὖν; ὃ ἐπιζητεῖ Ισραὴλ, τούτου 2 οὐκ ἐπέτυχεν, ἡ δὲ ἐκλογὴ ἐπέτυχεν * οἱ δὲλοιποὶ ἐπωρώθησαν 8. (καθὼς ὃ γέγραπται, “΄ Ἔδωκ…
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Theod. in Dan. x. 15 to translate Ὁ Τὴλ (cognate to MT), and in other places of any overpowering emotion: see Fritzsche ad loc. Winer, p. 117. It is God Who sends this spirit of stupor, but He does not send it arbitrarily nor at random: it is always a judgment. ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας: in Deut. xxix. 4 ἕως τῆς ἡ…
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Ver. 12. Both ἥττημα and πλήρωμα are difficult words, but it is not necessary to suppose that they answer mathematic- ally to one another, though Wetstein explains them by -- and +. ἥττημα may mean (as in Is. xxxi. 8) defeat, or (as in 1 Cor. vi. 7) loss; it can hardly mean diminutio eorum, or paucitas fud@orum …
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effect when Jewish unbelief diverted the , Gospel to the Gentiles. 4 πρόσληµψις: the assumption of the Jews into God’s favour. ζωὴ ἐκ vexp@v. Modern ex- positors almost all find in these words a reference to the resurrection; the restora- tion of the Jews at once brings on the end; the dead are raised, and the …
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17. et δέ τινες τῶν κλάδων ἐξεκλάσθησαν, σὺ k Ver. 24 δὲ Χ ἀγριέλαιος Gv | ἐνεκεντρίσθης ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ συγκοινωνὸς τῆς ῥίζης id τν ‘ a a > , A a st |, καὶ τῆς πιότητος } τῆς ἐλαίας ἐγένου, 18. μὴ ”κατακαυχῶ τῶν κλάδων ΄ προς εἰ δὲ κατακαυχᾶσαι, οὗ σὺ τὴν ῥίζαν βαστάζεις, GAN ἡ pila ce. m Jas. il. 13, 3 = * > , ε…
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Ver. 20. καλῶς: ‘a form of partial and often ironical assent’? (Gifford). Paul does not think it worth while to dispute the assertion of ver. 19, though as it stands it is by no means indisput- able; he prefers to point out what it overlooks—the moral conditions of being broken off and of standing secure—and to…
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Ver. 23. κἀκεῖνοι δέ: and they too, they on the other hand, viz., the un- believing Jews. ἐὰν μὴ κ.τ.λ., unless they remain on in their unbelief. It is assumed that they need not do this. The hardening spoken of in vers. 7-10, though it is a judgment upon sin, and may seem from the nature of the case to be irre-…
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25—26. 681 ἐθνῶν εἰσέλθῃ ᾽ 26. καὶ οὕτω twas ᾿Ισραὴλ σωθήσεται, καθὼς γέ- γραπται, “΄ Ἠξει ἐκ Σιὼν 6 ῥυόμενος, καὶ 1 ἀποστρέψει ἀσεβείας ἀπὸ 1 και before αποστρεψει om. ΝΑΒΟΡΛΕ, of them salvation comes; and it is at least as credible as the reverse (without considering Paul’s arguments at all) that Providence …
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Ver. 26. καὶ οὕτως = and thus; not merely temporal, but = under the in- fluence of the jealousy so excited—under the impression produced on the Jews by. the sight of the Gentiles in their fulness peopling the kingdom—all Israel shall be saved, This is an independent sentence. For was ᾿Ισραὴλ see 1 Kings xii. 1, …
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Ver. 29. Proof that the Israelites, in virtue of their relation to the fathers, are objects of God’s love. ἁμεταμέλητα cf. 2 Cor. vii. το: it may mean either what is not or what cannot be repented of: here the latter. God's gifts of grace, and His calling, are things upon which there is no going back. The χαρίσμ…
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685 [ο ~ 4 A ἀπειθείᾳ ᾿ 31. οὕτω καὶ οὗτοι νῦν ἠπείθησαν, τῷ ὑμετέρῳ ἐλέει ἵνα καὶ αὐτοὶ] ἐλεηθῶσι' 32. συνέκλεισε γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς τοὺς πάντας εἰς ἀπείθειαν, ἵνα τοὺς πάντας ἐλεήση. , ‘ , A ! σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως Θεού: 33. "2 βάθος πλούτου καὶ ὡς ἀνεξερεύνητα τὰ κρίµατα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ? After αντοι ${ BD? ins. νυν; and s…
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686 t Eph. iii 8," ἀνεξιχνίαστοι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ. 34. “τίς γὰρ ἔγνω νοῦν Κυρίου; ἢ A a » a τίς σύμβουλος αὐτοῦ éyéveto;” 35. “Tis προέδωκεν. αὐτῷ, καὶ an 352 ἀνταποδοθήσεται αὐτῷ; εέ(ο have mercy upon” means ‘‘to make partakers of that ‘common salvation’ (Jude 3) which is emphatically a dis- pensation of mercy”…
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Ver. 36. ὅτι ἐξ αὐτοῦ κ.τ.λ. Strictly speaking, the ὅτι confirms the last truth —man’s absolute dependence on God— by making it part ofa wider generalisation. ἐξ αὐτοῦ: from Him, as their source ; δι αὐτοῦ: through Him, as the power by whose continuous energy the world is sustained and ruled; eis αὐτὸν : unto H…
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parts of the epistle, not formally but really, and shows the dependence of the “practical” upon the “doctrinal”. It is the new world of realities to which the soul is introduced by the Christian revela- tion on which Christian morality depends. It is relative to that world, and would become unreal along with it,…
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a a - b 9 , c ~ . 4 = bi Pet. iis. τῷ Θεῷ,] τὴν ” λογικὴν "λατρείαν Guay" 2. καὶ μὴ συσχηµατίζεσθε τῷ σος 1χ 1. x a a Lod ~ ο ~ d Matt.xvii. αἰῶνι τούτω, ἀλλὰ * μεταμορφοῦσθε ? τῇ ἀνακαινώσει τοῦ νοὸς ὑμῶν, εἰς 2; 2Cor. iii. 18. καὶ τέλειον. τὸ δοκιµάζειν ὑμᾶς τί τὸ θέληµα τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ εὐάρεστον 3. Λ…
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Vers. 3-8. The duties of members of the Church as such: avoidance of self- exaltation, and mutual service in the measure of the gift bestowed on each. λέγω γάρ: the yap indicates that ‘‘ humi- lity is the immediate effect of self-sur- render to God” (Gifford). διὰ τῆς χάριτος κ.τ.λ. Paul illustrates in his own …
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Ver. 6 ff. At this point an application, apparently, is made of what has been said in vers. 4 and 5, but the grammar is very difficult. Both A.V.and R.V. supply what is needed in order to read the verses as an exhortation; thus in ver. 6, “Jet us prophesy”; in ver. 7, “let us wait” ; and in ver. 8, answering to …
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691 9. Ἡ ἀγάπη " ἀνυπόκριτος. ἀποστυγοῦντες τὸ πονηρὀν, κολλώµενοι h 2 Cor. vi. τῷ ἀγαθῷ ΄ 1ο. τῇ φιλαδελφίᾳ εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλόστοργοι. gift has it ἐν τῇ διακονίᾳ, 1.ε., in the qualities and in the sphere proper to it: ᾿ it is in its own nature limited; it is what it is, and nothing else, and fits a man for this …
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Ver. 10. τῇ Φιλαδελφίᾳ = in point of brotherly love, {.ε., your love to each other as children in the one family of God. Cf. 1 Thess. iv. 9, Heb. xiii. 9, 1 Pet. i. 22, 2 Pet. i. 7, 1 Pet. iii. 8. ἀδελφὸς in the apostolic writings does not mean fellow-man, but fellow-Christian; and φιλαδελφία is the mutual affec…
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ἁγίων κοινωνοῦντες, τὴν Φιλοξενίαν διώκοντες. διώκοντας Spas εὐλογεῖτε, καὶ μὴ ! καταρᾶσθε. Χαιρόντων, Kal? κλαίειν μετὰ κλαιόντων. 693 14. εὐλογεῖτε τοὺς 15. Χαίρειν μετὰ 1 dhe > 3 2 16. τὸ αὐτὸ eis ἀλλήλους φρονούντες ' μὴ τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονοῦύντες, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ταπεινοῖς συναπαγό- μενοι. κακοῦ ἀποδιδόντες. 1 και …
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694 m Matt. XXiv. 24; Gal. iv.15. ΤΟ. XII. 18—ar. A a - 18. ei ™Suvarov, τὸ ἐξ ὑμῶν, μετὰ πάντων ἀνθρώπων εἰρηνεύοντες. Mi) ἑαυτοὺς ἐκδικούντες, ἀγαπητοί, ἀλλὰ δότε τόπον τῇ ὀργῇ a 3 Ν , γέγραπται γὰρ, “"Epoi ἐκδίκησις, ἐγὼ ἀνταποδώσω, λέγει Κύριος”. 20. ἐὰν οὖν } πεινᾷ 6 ἐχθρός σου, ψώμιζε αὐτόν. ἐὰν Supa,…
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ο... f~—~—_ XIII. x. XIII. 1. ΠΑΣΑ Wuxh ἐξουσίαις ὑπερεχούσαις ὑποτασσέσθω. 695 > ou - > > ”- γάρ ἐστιν ἐξουσία ei μὴ ἀπὸ] Θεοῦ" ai δὲ οὖσαι ἐξουσίαι ὑπὸ τού Le. µη απο θεου D'F, Orig. and all edd. made to be the bringing down /of Divine judgment on him—which is not only absurd in itself, but in direct ant…
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Ver. I. πᾶσα Wuyy is a Hebraism; 696 - > / Θεού τεταγµέναι Elo. a Acts vii. ος λήψονται. a a5 , - 2. ὥστε 6 ἀντιτασσόμενος τή ἐξουσίᾳα, τῇ - a - 3 ε a a τοῦ Θεοῦ "διαταγή ἀνθέστηκεν ' οἱ δὲ ἀνθεστηκότες, ἑαυτοῖς κρῖμα 3- οἱ γὰρ ἄρχοντες οὐκ εἰσὶ φόβος τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἔργων, ἀλλὰ τῶν κακῶν.ὶ θέλεις δὲ μὴ φοβεῖσθαι…
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Ver. 4. θεοῦ yap διάκονός ἐστιν cot eis τὸ ἀγαθόν. διάκονός is feminine agreeing with ἐξουσία, which is “ almost personified ” (Sanday and Headlam). The σοὶ is not immediately dependent on διάκονός, as if the State were con- ceived as directly serving the person; the State serves God, with good in view as the e…
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therefore refers frequently to the service of the priests and Levites, a usage the influence of which is seen in chap. xv. 16 and Phil. ii. 17; but this was by no means exclusively the case in the O.T. (2 Sam. xiii. 18, 2 Kings x. 5) nor is it so in the New (chap. xv. 27, Phil. ii. 25, 30). It is not a priestly …
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τὸν Φόβον, τὸν φόβον' τῷ τὴν τιμὴν, THY 8. Μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλετε,' εἰ μὴ τὸ ἀγαπᾷν ἀλλήλους: 6 9. τὸ γὰρ, “Od µοι- 25. ’ τιμήν. γὰρ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἕτερον, νόµον πεπλήρωκε. Pe Χεύσεις, οὐ Φονεύσεις, οὐ κλέψεις, οὐ Weudopaptupycets,” οὐκ ἐπι- d ανα, ’ 35 Gal. v. 14; Bupjoets, καὶ εἴ τις ἑτέρα ἐντολὴ, ἐν τούτῳ τῷ λόγ…
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Vv. 11-14. In the closing verses of the chapter Paul enforces this exhorta- tion to mutual love as the fulfilling of the law by reference to the approaching Parousia. We must all appear (and who can tell how soon ?) before the judgment- seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in the body: if t…
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Ver. 13. ὡς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ: as one walks in the day, so let us walk εὐσχημόνως. The same adverb is found with the same verb in 1 Thess. iv. 2: A.V. in both places ‘honestly’. The meaning is rather ‘in seemly fashion,” ‘ becomingly ”’; in r Cor. xiv. 4ο it is rendered “' decently,”’ where also regard for decorum (the …
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XIV. 1. ΤΟΝ δὲ ἀσθενοῦντα τῇ πίστει "προσλαιβάνεσθε, μὴ εἰς . Ὃς μὲν πιστεύει φαγεῖν πάντα, ὁ δὲ to speak of those who by an inadequate appreciation of Christian liberty were prac- tising an ‘‘over-scrupulous asceticism ”’, There has been much discussion as to who ‘“‘the weak” and “the strong” re- spectively wer…
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Jol ἀσθενῶν λάχανα ἐσθίει. 3. 6 ἐσθίων τὸν μὴ ἐσθίοντα μὴ " ἐξουθενείτω, c 1 Cor. i. καὶ 6 μὴ 1 ἐσθίων τὸν ἐσθίοντα μὴ κρινέτω" ὁ Θεὸς γὰρ αὐτὸν προ- η σελάβετο. 28; vi. 4; Xvi. 11. ~ , ’ 4. σὺ τίς et ὁ κρίνων ἀλλότριον οἰκέτην; τῷ ἰδίῳ κυρίῳ στήκει ἢ Winter: σταθήσεται δέ: δυνατὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὖ 6 Θεὸς στῆσαι >…
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“to the possibility of a tyranny of the weak, and repressed it in its beginnings. It is easy to lapse from scrupulousness about one’s own conduct into Pharisaism about that of others. οἰκέτης is rare in the N.T. Paul has no other example, and may have used it here for the sugges- tion (which δοῦΌλος has not) tha…
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Ver. 6. The indifference of the ques- tions at issue, from the religious point of view, is shown by the fact that both parties, by the line of action they choose, have the same end in view—viz., the interest of the Lord. 6 φρονῶν τὴν jpépav cf. Col. iii. 2. The setting of the mind upon the day implies of course …
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that His lordship over the realm of death is established, so that not even in that dark world do those who are His cease to stand in their old relation to Him. τοῦ κυρίου ἐσμὲν holds alike in the seen and the unseen. Ver. το. Σὺ δὲ: thou, in contrast with the one Lord and Judge of all. In face of our common res…
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Vv. 13-23. The Apostle now proceeds Ὁ argue the question of Christian con- luct in things indifferent from another point of view — that of the influence which our conduct may have on others, and of the consideration which is due to them. µηκέτι οὖν ἀλλήλους κρίνωµεν: thus much follows from what has been said al…
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βρώματί σου ἐκεῖνον ἀπόλλυε, ὑπὲρ οὗ Χριστὸς ἀπέθανε. ) βλασφημείσθω οὖν ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαθόν. τοῦ | Θεοῦ βρῶσις καὶ πόσις, ἀλλὰ δικαιοσύνη καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ χαρὰ ἐν Πνεύματι ᾽Αγίῳ: 18. ὁ γὰρ ἐν τούτοις] δουλεύων τῷ Χριστῷ 17. οὗ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία 2. ‘ 795 16. Μὴ h Ch. iii. 8. ir Cor. iv. Matt. vi. 24; Ch. xvi. 18…
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in 2 Tim. iv. 18) a Bao. ἐπονράνιον. See 1 Thess. ii. 12, 2 Thess. i. 5, 1 Cor. vi. 9 f., xv. 50, Gal. v. 21. This use of the expression, however, does not exclude another, which is more akin to what we find in the Gospels, and regards the Kingdom ot God as in some sense also present: we have examples of this he…
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~ ~ A , - εὐάρεστος τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ δόκιμος τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. 19. dpa οὖν τὰ Ιδιώκωµεν,ὶ καὶ τὰ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τῆς εἰς ἀλλήλους. 20. Mh ἕνεκεν βρώματος κατάλυε τὸ ἔργον τοῦ Θεοῦ. πάντα μὲν in ith. 15. καθαρὰ, ἀλλὰ κακὸν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳω τῷ διὰ προσκόµµατος ἐσθίοντι. n 1 Cor. viii. 13. 21. καλὸν τὸ μὴ Φαγεῖν " κρέα, μηδὲ π…
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19—23. 7ο7 σου προσκόπτει ἢ σκανδαλίζεται ἢ ἀσθενεῖ.ὶ 22. σὺ πίστιν Σ Exes; κατὰ σεαυτὸν ἔχε ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ: µακάριος ὁ μὴ κρίνων ἑαυτὸν ἐν ᾧ ° δοκιμάζει. 23. 6 δὲ διακρινόµενος, ἐὰν φάγῃ, κατακέκριται, ο: Cor. Xvi. ὅτι οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως" way δὲ ὃ οὐκ ἐκ πίστεως, ἁμαρτία éoriv.® 1 η σκανδαλιζεται η ασθενει om. N…
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Ver. 1. ὀφείλομεν δὲ: what constitutes the obligation is seen in chap. xiv. It arises out of our relation to others in Christ. Looking at them in the light of what He has done for them as well as for us, and in the light of our responsibility 708 a Acts xiv. XV. 1. Ὀφείλομεν δὲ ἡμεῖς οἱ δυνατοὶ τὰ ἀσθενήματα τῶν…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.