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< ruve/8ri<fiv , for conscience ’ sad#) which expects the praise of a good action from the minister of God, ver. 3.
6. Asirovpyoi, ministers) The ministry and the magistracy are adorned with the same titles. So ver. 4, diaxovo-g, comp. Is. xliv. 28 ; Jer. xxv. 9. — "xpocxaprspouvn c, [attending continually] persevering) O that all men would do so rightly.
7. ’OptiXag), debts. — rip, an abbreviated mode of expression,1 as in 2 Cor. viii. 15, note. — popov, rsXog) with respect to the thing itself ; pop.og is the genus, r'eXog the species. — po(3ov , rifiriv, fear, honour) with the mind, and words and gestures, pofiog, respect, a higher degree of honour .
8. Mribbvi, to no man) From our duties to magistrates, he pro- ceeds to general duties, such as we owe to one another . — bpelXers, owe) a new part of the exhortation begins here. — uyarrav, to love) a never-ending debt. Song of Sol. viii. 7, at end of ver. If you will continue to love, you will owe nothing, for love is the fulfilling of the law. To love is liberty.
9. Ov [Aoiytvaug, thou shalt not commit adultery) Paul goes over the commandments without binding himself down to their order. — ov ^sudo/xaprupriCsig, thou shalt not bear false witness) I did not think that this came from Paul’s pen, but Baumgarten thinks so, as he writes, that Whitby should be consulted. See App. crit. Ed. ii. on this passage.2 — s7 rig Ir'spa, if there be any other) for example, honour thy father. — svroXri) ivroXri, a command- ment, a part ; vo/xog, the law, the whole. — Xoyu, in the saying) a short, easy one. — avaxspuXaiovrai) it is briefly comprehended, so that although particular precepts may not be thought of, yet no offence can be committed against any one of them by the man, who is endued with love ; comp, is fulfilled [in one word] Gal. v. 14, likewise, hang [all the law and the prophets] Matt. xxii. 40. — ug Gzaurov) So Seidelianus along with some ; others read ug saurbv, which Baumgarten approves. I was of opinion that one sigma had been written instead of two, and those, who are
1 See Appendix. Concisa Locutio.
2 The German Version has the clause, rather, I should think, from a slip of memory, than from change of opinion. — E. B.
ABD(A)G/<7 Origen, the best MSS. of Vulg. omit ov \pivlopcoi^rv^aeig. Rec. Text keep the words, with which a few MSS. of the Memph. Vers, agree. —Ed.
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