the archaic sense, = becomingly ; in becoming attire). — xw/xo/s xa/ ffeOcug, not in riotings and drunkenness) as to ourselves, xoj/xog, feasting , a lascivious banquet, with dancing and various dis- orderly acts.^-Wisd. xiv. 23 ; 2 Macc. vi. 4. — xolrcug %-ai a<re\- ysloug, in chamberings and wantonness) accompanied with others. — zpihi xa/ in strife and envying) directed against others. In ver. 13, 14, there is a chiasmus i1 a. not in rioting — |S. not in strife and envying : y. but put on , in love [opposed to strife, and inseparable from Christ], tlte Lord Jesus Christ — d. and — not — for the lusts. (3 and y correspond, a and d.
1 4. Tov) Here is summarily contained all the light and power of the New Testament, as it is the whole of salvation [ everything that is wrong being excluded. — Y. g.] 1 Cor. vi. 11. — ’irjtouv Xputrbv , Jesus Christ) ch. vi. 3, 4. — tapxbg, of the flesh) This has respect to ch. vii. and viii. — -v povoiav , care) The care of the flesh is neither forbidden in this passage as bad, nor praised as good, but it is reduced to order and fortified against the dangers to which it is liable, as something of a middle character [between bad and good], and yet in some respects the object of suspicion. Tlpovoiay previous [anticipatory] care of the flesh is opposed to holy hope. — ski tag, lusts ) of pleasure and passion : with this comp. ver. 13 [and ch. vi. 7.]
1. ’A<r0evovvra) The participle is milder than the adjective adkvrij weak. — vitrei, in faith) Even still the apostle refers all things to faith. — vpo<j\afi(Sdvetk, receive ye) We have the same word, ver. 3, ch. xi. 15, xv. 7 ; Philem. ver. 3 7. [a Salvation has come to both Jews and Gentiles by faith ; therefore neither party should impede the other , but both should afford mutual assistance. — Y. g.] — ,un ei g, not into) He who urges another to do, what he himself is doing, appears to receive him, but then he receives him so, that his thoughts , diaXoyitfioi, are driven into [to enter-
1 See Appendix.