acquainted with the habits of the transcribers, will readily agree with me. Examples will be found in App. crit., p. 383.1
10. K axbv oux, no evil ) Moreover, most duties are of a negative character; or at least, where there is no one injured, positive duties are pleasantly and spontaneously performed. Where there is true love, there a man is not guilty of adultery, theft, lying, covetousness, ver. 9. 2
11. K ai rovro , and this) supply do, those things, which are laid down from ch. xii. 1, 2, and especially from xiii. 8. — xaipbv) the time [opportunity, season] abounding in grace, ch. v. 6., iii. 26 ; 2 Cor. vi. 2. — upa, the hour) viz. it is. This word marks a short period of time. TV e take account of the hour for [with a view to] rising. — jjdt j, already) without delay ; presently after there occurs m, at the present time [now]. — tg l mv, out of sleep) The morning dawns, when man receives faith, and then sleep is shaken oif. He must therefore rise, walk and do his work, lest sleep should again steal over him. The exhortations of the Gospel always aim at higher and higher degrees of perfec- tion, [something farther beyond], and presuppose the oldness of the condition in which we now are, compared with those newer things, which ought to follow, and which correspond to the nearness of salvation. — i]fiuv) construed with syyi/g, which is in- cluded in iy'yvrspov, rather than with aurnp/u ; for in other pas- sages it is always called either the salvation of God , or salvation absolutely, not our salvation , [which Engl. Vers, wrongly gives] ; comp, on this nearness of salvation , Gal. iii. 3, v. 7. In both places the apostle supposes, that the course of the Christian, once begun, thereupon proceeds onward continually, and comes nearer and nearer to the goal. Paul had long ago written both his epistles to the Thessalonians ; therefore when he wrote of the nearness of salvation, he wrote considerately [for he here, after having had such a time meanwhile to consider, repeats his statement], comp. 1 Thess. iv. 15, note. Observe also : he says elsewhere, that we are near to salvation, Heb. vi. 9 : but here,
1 ABD(A) Vulg. Orig. have atciinov. But Gand Rec. Text kavrov. — Ed.
2 Ovv, then ) Love is not extinguished of itself ; for well-doing, unless it meets with some obstruction from some evil, goes on without interruption : hence it is that from the avoiding of evil the fulfilment of the law, which also includes good, is derived [is made to flow]. — Y. g.