Farewell (yaipere). In the classics used both at meeting and at parting. Lit., hail/ See on Jas. i.1. Rev., in mar- gin, has rejoice. It is somewhat doubtful whether it ever has the meaning farewell in the New Testament.* Edersheim says that, on Sabbaths, when the outgoing course of priests left the temple, they parted from each other with a farewell, reminding us of this to the Corinthians: ‘He that has caused His name to dwell in this house cause love, brotherhood, peace, and friendship to dwell among you” (“The Temple,” p. 117).
Be perfect (xatapritecIe). Rev., be perfected. See on Luke vi. 40; 1 Pet. v. 10. Paul speaks both of individual perfection and of the perfection of the Church through the
* Lightfoot on Philip, iii. 1, renders farewell, but says that the word con- tains an exhortation to rejoice. On Philip. iv. 4 he again combines the two meanings, and says, ‘‘it is neither farewell alone nor rejoice alone.” Thayer, in his lexicon, ignores farewell.
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right adjustment of all its members in Christ. Compare 1 Cor. i. 10. The verb is kindred with perfecting, ver. 9.
12. Kiss. In 1 Pet. i. 14, called the kiss of charity. The practice was maintained chiefly at the celebration of the Eucha- rist. In the “ Apostolic Constitutions” * it is enjoined that, be- fore the communion, the clergy kiss the bishop, the laymen amongst each other, and so the women. This latter injunction grew out of the reproach of looseness of manners circulated by the heathen against the Christians. On Good Friday it was omitted in commemoration of Judas’ kiss. In the West the practice survives among the Glassites or Sandemanians. In the Latin Church, after the end of the thirteenth century, there was sub- stituted for it a piece of the altar furniture called a Pas (peace), which was given to the deacon with the words Peace to thee and to the Church. In the East it is continued in the Coptic and Russian Churches.
‘14. The grace, etc. The most complete benediction of the Pauline epistles. In most of the epistles the introductory benedictions are confined to grace and peace. In the pastoral epistles mercy is added. In the closing benedictions uniformly grace.
* A collection of ecclesiastical prescripts in eight books, in which three in- dependent works are combined. They contain doctrinal, liturgical, and moral instructions, The first six books belong to the second century. The seventh is an enlargement of the ‘‘ Teaching of the Twelve Apostles,” adapted to the Eastern Church in the first half of the fourth century (see Schaff’s ‘‘ Teaching of the Twelve Apostles,”’ Doc. vii.). The Constitutions were never recognized by the Western Church, and opinion in the Eastern Church was divided as to their worth and dignity,