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not really love good. From this passage, the discourse moves forward in pairs of sentences. [ There are men 1) who patronise evil and assail good : 2) who love good , hut do not abhor evil with that indignation which it deserves : 3) who disdain evil , but cherish good more coldly than is proper : 4) who so abhor evil and cleave to qood , as that in their case no one can be iqnorant
ofit.-V. g.]
10. <t>iX6aropy(u, kindly affectioned) <*ropyr\, the spiritual love of brethren. — Kpoyiyov/Aivu, [Engl. V. preferring-) anticipating , or leading the way in doing honour to one another) if not always in gesture and actions, at least always in the judgment of the mind. That will be so, if we rather consider the good qualities of others and our own faults. These are the social virtues of the saints [homileticse. Or perhaps, u their virtues are a kind of living sermon to the world.”] The Talmudists say : whosoever knows , that his neighbour has been in the habit of saluting him , should anticipate him by saluting him first .
11. Tfj (Tvoudri — rip rcnxqhan, in diligence [business, Engl. Vers.] — in spirit) The external or active, and the internal or contempla- tive life is thus set in due order. — rip K vp/u dovXsvovrcc , serving the Lord) We ought to serve Christ and God, ver. 1, ch. vii. 6, xiv. 18, xvi. 18; Acts xx. 19; Phil. iii. 3; Ps. ii. 11, where serving and rejoicing are parallel, as in this passage. [See App. Crit. Ed. II. on this passage , which shows that the reading xaiptp1 is quite unsupported and unworthy of the apostle. Not. crit.]
12. ’EXtf7<3/, in hope) So far respecting faith and love, now also concerning hope, comp. ch. v. and viii. Then concerning our duties to others, to the saints, ver. 13, to persecutors, ver. 14, to friends, strangers, enemies, ver. 15, etc. — yalpovrsc, rejoicing) True joy is not only an emotion of the mind and a benefit [pri- vilege], but also a Christian duty, ver. 15. It is the highest complaisance in God. He wishes us to rejoice and to spend our spiritual life joyously.
13. Ta Tg ypeiaig) rip Phil. iv. 14. There was much
occasion for this especially at Pome. It is particularly remark- able, that Paul, when he is expressly treating of duties arising
1 AB and prob. all Gr. MSS. of Jerome, Vulg. and most Versions read Kvfia. But D(A) corrected later, and Gfg read ncufip. — Ed.
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