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To feed (moraivew). See on Matt. ii. 6. The word embraces more than feeding ; signifying all that is included in the office of a shepherd : tending, or shepherding.
Purchased (aepveroujcato). Only here and 1 Tim. ii. 13. See on peculiar people, 1 Pet. ii. 9. The verb means, originally, to make (movéw) to remain over and above (rept): hence to keep or save for one’s self ; to compass or acquire.
29. Grievous (Bapeis). Lit., heavy: violent, rapacious. 31. Watch (ypnyopetre). See on Mark xiii. 35.
To warn (vov9erev). From voids, the mind, and Tidnps, to put. Lit., to put in mind ; admonish (so Rev., better than warn). “Its fundamental idea is the well-intentioned serious- ness with which one would influence the mind and disposition of another by advice, admonition, warning, putting right, ac- cording to circumstances ” (Cremer).
32. |commend. See on 1 Pet. iv. 19.
Build you up. A metaphor in constant use by Paul, and preserved in the words edify, edification (Latin, aedes, “a house,” and facere, “to make”) by which ofxodouém and its kindred words are frequently rendered. In old English the word edify was used in its original sense of budld. Thus Wycliffe renders Gen. ii. 22, “The Lord God edified the rib which he took of Adam, into a woman.”
_ So, too, Spenser : ‘Ca little wide There was a holy temple edified.”” Faerte Queene, i., 1, 34.
33. Raiment. Mentioned along with gold and silver be- cause it formed a large part of the wealth of orientals. They traded in costly garments, or kept them stored up for future use. See on purple, Luke xvi. 19; and compare Ezra ii. 69; Neh. vil. 70; Job xxvii. 16. This fact accounts for the allusions to the destructive power of the moth (Matt. vi. 19; Jas. v. 2).
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35. | have shewed you all things (ardvra iméSeuéa viv), The verb means to shew by example. Thus, Luke vi. 47, “I will shew you to whom he is like,” is followed by the illustra- tion of the man who built upon the rock. So Acts ix.16. God will shew Paul by practical experience how great things he must suffer. The kindred noun iéderyya is always rendered example or pattern. See John xiii. 15; Jas. v. 10, etc.; and note on 2 Pet. ii. 6. Rev., correctly, Jn all things I gave you an example.
So. AsI have done. To help (avtiAauBdveoSar). See on Luke i. 54.
He said (adds ive). Rey., more strictly, “ he himself said.” This saying of Jesus is not recorded by the Evangelists, and was received by Paul from oral tradition.
The speech of Paul to the Ephesian elders “ bears impressed on it the mark of Paul’s mind: its ideas, its idioms, and even its very words are Pauline; so much so as to lead Alford to ob- serve that we have probably the literal report of the words spoken by Paul. ‘It is, he remarks, ‘a treasure-house of words, idioms, and sentences peculiar to the apostle himself’ ” (Gloag).
37. Kissed (catedi/rovy). See on Matt. xxvi. 49.
38. See (Sewpeiv). See on Luke x.18. The word for stead- Jast, earnest contemplation suggests the interest and affection with which they looked upon his countenance for the last time.