the Greek word. It is the full meting out of justice to all parties. The quotation is an adaptation of the LXX of Deut. xxxii. 35. The second citation is literally from LXX of Deut. xxxii. 36.
31. To fall, etc. Comp. LXX, 2 Sam. xxiv. 14; Sir. ii. 18.
Of the living God. The living God, revealed in the living Christ, will not suffer his sacrificial gift and his covenant to be slighted and insulted with impunity. See on ch. iii. 12.
32. After ye were illuminated (poricdevres). See on ch. vi. 4.
A great fight (aoAAnv 4OAnow). “APAnow N.T.°, °(LXX. See on ary strive, 2 Tim. ii. 5. See Introduction, on the allusions in the epistle to persecution.
33. Whilst ye were made a gazing-stock (Gearpitduevor). N. T.°, °LXX, °Class. Lit. exhibited in the theatre. Comp. 1 Cor. iv. 9.
Whilst ye became companions (xowwvol yevnbértes). Rend. by becoming partakers. More than companionship is implied. For cowwvoi see on L. v.10. The noun and its kindred verb in N. T. almost exclusively of ethical and spir- itual relations, as 1 Tim. v. 22; 1 Pet. iv. 18; 2 J. 11; 1 Cor. x. 18; 2 Cor. i. 7; Philem. 17. Even-when applied to pecuniary contributions they imply Christian fellowship as the basis of the liberality. See on Rom. xii. 18; xv. 27; Philip. iv. 15.
Of them that were so used (rév obras dvactpepoudvwr). Rend. “of them that fared thus.” Others render “who con- ducted themselves thus”; endured their persecutions so bravely. But the obrws can refer only to made a gazing- stock.
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34. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds («al yap tots decpiots ovverraOnoate). Entirely wrong, following T. R. Tots Secpois wou. Rend. “ye had compassion on the prison- ers.” So Vulg. vinctis compassi estis. The corrupt reading has furnished one of the stock arguments for the Pauline
authorship of the Epistle.
Took joyfully (wera yapas rpocedéEacbe). The verb prim- arily to receive to one’s self, accept, as here. Comp. L. xv. 2; Philip. ii. 29. Mostly, in N. T. however, to wait for, expect, as Mk. xv. 48; L. ii. 25, 88; Acts xxiii. 21.
Spoiling (ap7raynv). Only here, Matt. xxiii. 25; L. xi. 39. Allied with dp7rafew to snatch away.
Of your goods (rev irapydvrwy tuav). The verb trap- xe means originally to begin, or begin to be ; hence of anything that has begun to be, to come forth, be there; then simply to be. Accordingly the phrase trdpye: wol re means there is some- thing to me, I have something. See Acts iii. 6; iv. 87; xxviii. 7. Hence ra irdpyovta things which are to one ; possessions, goods. See Matt. xix. 21; xxiv. 27; L. viii. 3; Acts iv. 32.*
Knowing in yourselves that ye have, etc. (yivwcKovtes éyety €avtovs). Rend. “knowing that ye yourselves have a better,” etc. The A.V. follows T. R. éy éavrois.t Ye your- selves in contrast with your spoilers.
Substance (i7rap&w). Only here and Acts ii. 45. Occas- ionally in LXX. Rend. possession.
* Tt is sometimes claimed that trdpyev as distinguished from eiva: implies a reference to an antecedent condition. That is true in some instances, but the reference is not inherent in the verb ; since sometimes there is implied a reference to a future condition, and sometimes the verb is used simply in the sense of eiva: to be absolutely.
+ Others, as Alford and Liinemann, adopt the reading éavro?s for your- selves. Westcott, and Rev. marg., reading éavrovs, render it as the object of zxew, ‘* knowing that ye had yourselves for a better possession,’’ and refer- ring to L. xxi. 19. According to this the sense is, ‘‘ your true selves remained. untouched. You saved them out of the wreck of your possessions.’» This is foreign to the tone of the epistle, and must be regarded as artificial.