Your professed subjection (i7otay7 tis oporoyias buar). A vicious hendiadys. Lit., as Rev., the obedience of your con- Jfession ; that is, the obedience which results from your christ- ian confession. ‘“Opodoyia is once rendered in A. V. confes- sion, 1 Tim. vi. 13; and elsewhere profession. Both render- ings occur in 1 Tim. vi. 12, 13. Rev., in every case, confession. A similar variation occurs in the rendering of oworoyéo, though in all but five of the twenty-three instances confess is used. Rey. retains profess in Matt. vii. 23 ; Tit. i. 16, and changes to confess in 1 Tim. vi. 12. In Matt. xiv. 7, promised (A. V. and Rev., see note), and in Heb. xiii. 15, giving thanks ; Rev., which make confession. Etymologically, confession is the lit- eral rendering of owodoyia, which is from oop together, Neyo to say ; con together, fateor to say. The fundamental idea is that of saying the same thing as another ; while profess (pro Jorth, fateor to say) is to declare openly. Hence, to profess Christ is to declare Him publicly as our Lord: to confess Christ is to declare agreement with all that He says. When Christ confesses His followers before the world, He makes a declara- tion in agreement with what is in His heart concerning them. Similarly, when He declares to the wicked “I never knew you” (“then will I profess, ouoroynow”), a similar agreement. be- tween His thought and His declaration is implied. The two ideas run into each other, and the Rev. is right in the few cases
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in which it retains profess, since confess would be ambiguous. See, for example, Tit. i. 16.
Liberal distribution (dadérnTu Tihs Kowevlas). Rev., cor- rectly, liberality of your contribution. Kowwvia communion includes the idea of communication of material things, and hence sometimes means that which ts comn. enicated. See on Acts ii. 42; so Rom. xv. 26; Heb. xiii. 16. Compare the sim- ilar use of xowwvew, Rom. xii. 13, distributing ; Philip. iv. 15, communicated.
15. Thanks, etc. These abrupt thanksgivings are common in Paul’s writings. See Rom. ix. 5; xi. 33; 1 Cor. xv. Sa Gal. i. 5; Eph. iii. 20.
Unspeakable (dvexdunyjt@). Lit., not to be told throughout. Only here in the New Testament.