Threatening (77 azrevrjv). Note the article, the threaten- ing customary from the master to the slave.
Knowing. Since ye know.
Your master also (juav abtav o xuptos). The correct read- ing is xal adTav Kai tuov 0 Kuptos both their master and yours.
So Rev.
Respect of persons. See on Jas. ii. 13 Col. iii. 25.
10. Finally (7d Aourdv). See on 2 Cor. xiii. 11. Omit my brethren.
Be strong (évévvapota%e). Lit., be strengthened. Compare Rom. iv. 20, and Philip. iv. 13.
Power of His might. See on ch. i. 19.
11. Whole armor (zravor)iav). Panoply is a transcript of the Greek word. Only here, ver. 13, and Luke xi. 22, see note. In classical Greek of the full armor of a heavy-armed soldier. The student may compare the description of the forging of
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Aeneas’ armor by Vulcan (Virgil, “Aeneid,” viii, 415-459), and of the armor itself as displayed to Aeneas by Venus (“ Aeneid,” viii., 616-730). Also of the armor of Achilles (Homer, “Iliad,” xviii., 468-617).
Wiles (ueSodelas). See on ch. iv. 14. The armor is a de- fence against strategy as well as assault.
The devil (rod duaBonrov). See on Matt. iv. 1; John vi. 70. In Job and Zechariah used as the equivalent of Satan (hater or accuser, see on Luke x. 18), of a single person, the enemy of mankind. In the other Old-Testament passages in which it occurs, it is used to translate either Satan or its equivalent in meaning, tsar (adversary, distresser), but without the same ref- erence to that single person. See Sept., 1 Chron. xxi. 1; Hether vil, 45) viligde Ps. ccviin 6 3) Numb.sodi. (32.49 The Septuagint usage implies enmity in mel, without accusation either true or false. In the New Testament invariably as a proper name, except in the Pastoral Epistles, where it has its ordinary meaning slanderous. See 1 Tim. iii. 11; 2 Tim. iii. 3; Tit. ii. 8. As a proper name it is used in the Septuagint sense as the equivalent of Satan, and meaning enemy.
12. We wrestle (éoruv suiv 7 wddm). Rev., more literally and correctly, owr wrestling is. IIddn wrestling, only here.
Flesh and blood. The Greek reverses the order. Principalities and powers. See on Col. i. 16.
Rulers of the darkness of this world (xcocpoxpdropas tod oKxotous Tovtov). Rev., more correctly, world-rulers of this darkness. World- eee only here. Compare John xiv. 30; xvie dis 1 John v. 19; 2°Cor, iv, 4.
Spiritual wickedness (ra mvevpatixd Ths movnpias). Lit., the spiritual things of wickedness. Rev., spiritual hosts of wickedness. The phrase is collective, of fe evil powers viewed asa body. Wickedness is active evil, mischief. Tence Satan is called 6 sovnpds the wicked one. See on Luke iii. 19 ; vii. 21; 1 John ii. 18.