freighted utterance of Paul. The thought is scanty in pro- portion to the volume of words; as Holtzmann says: “We miss those characteristic dam-breakings which the construction suffers from the swelling fulness of thought.” We miss the frequent anacolutha, the unclosed parentheses, the sudden digressions, the obscurities arising from the headlong impe- tus of thought and feeling. The construction of sentences is simple, the thoughts are expressed without adornment, everything is according to rule and easy, but without mo- mentum or colour. Strange compounds, great, swelling words, start up in our path: a Pauline thought appears in a strange dress: the voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Some of these unusual compounds, for which the writer has a great liking, occur neither in the N. T. nor in profane Greek. High-sounding words are chosen where simpler terms would have suited the thought better. It seems, occasionally, as if the diction were being employed to pad the meagreness of the thought. A class of words which occur principally in the Pauline letters is wanting, as dduxos, axalapola, axpoBvetia, yvopitev, SiaOnkn, mepurateiv, ypnotds, and cua, which, in the four principal Epistles alone, Paul uses 71 times. We miss entire families of Pauline words, as €Aed@epos, ppoveiv, TMpadocew, TEAELOS, Evepryeiv, Tepiacds, and the numerous deriv- atives and compounds growing out of these.
Again, we look in vain for certain expressions most charac- teristic of the Pauline vocabulary, as traxovew, drroxadvrreLy, cavyaoOa, and their kindred words. Still more significant is the fact that the article, which is freely used by Paul before entire sentences, adverbs, interjections, numerals, and espe- cially before the infinitive, is never so employed in the Pastor- als. Tov with the infinitive disappears. The prepositions, the conjunctions, and especially the particles are quite differ- ently handled. The lively yap appears oftener in the Epistle to the Galatians than in all the three Pastorals. The move- ment of the Pauline thought indicated by dpa and dpa ody is lacking. “Avril, dypt, 61d, duds, Ewarpoobev, evexev, érevra, ett, ide, (Sov, mnmeas, dws, ovKETL, OTM, OUTE, TAALD, mapa with the