[168] Comp. Rom. viii. 37, xvi. 20. _To bring down_, _overpower_, _conquer_ is the military sense of =katergazomai=,--not found elsewhere in the New Testament, but, as it seems to us, unmistakable here. It occurs in Ezek. xxxiv. 4 (LXX), and 1 Esdr. iv. 4.
[169] Col. i. 23, ii. 5; Phil. i. 27-30, iv. 1: comp. 1 Thess. v. 8; Rom. xiii. 11-14; 1 Cor. xvi. 13; 2 Cor. x. 3-6.
[170] 2 Thess. ii. 3; Acts xx. 29, 30; 1 Tim. iv. 1; 2 Tim. iii. 1.
[171] Ch. 1. 17-23, iii. 16-19, iv. 13-15, 20-24.
[172] =Hetoimasia= is adopted by the Greek translators as the equivalent of the Hebrew word for _foundation_, or _base_, in Ps. lxxxix. 14; Ezra ii. 68, iii. 3; Dan. xi. 7, 20, 21. See, however, the note of Meyer, who thinks that they misunderstood the Hebrew.
[173] =Thyreos=: Latin _scutum_; only here in N.T.
[174] Rev. i. 16, ii. 12, xix. 13-15.
[175] =En pasê proskarterêsei=: _in every kind of persistence_,--a perseverance that tries all arts and holds its ground at every point. The verb =proskartereô= appears in the parallel passages: Col. iv. 2; Rom. xii. 12; also in Acts i. 14.
=Pepeismai gar hoti oute thanatos oute zôê oute angeloi oute archai oute enestôta oute mellonta oute dynameis oute hypsôma oute bathos oute tis ktisis hetera dynêsetai hêmas chôrisai apo tês agapês tou Theou tês en Christô Iêsou tô Kyriô hêmôn=--ROM. viii. 38, 39.
"Love for Christ is immortal."--R. W. DALE.