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adultery, for, it usually had these crimes joined to it. — /AaXaxo/, effeminate) Even the hand in the deepest solitude ought to be chaste, a necessary warning to youth.
11. TaDra, such) The Nominative neuter for the masculine ; or the accusative with xara understood, as l<sa, Phil. ii. 6 : Even the accusative as an adverb may be construed with the substan- tive verb to he. — oAAcfc utfeXovifaffOs, aAAa YiyiaaOrire, aAA’ g&xa/w- 0?jrs, but ye have been washed , but ye have been sanctified , but ye have been justified) you have been set entirely free from fornica- tion and sins of impurity, in regard to yourselves ; from idolatry and impiety against God; from unrighteousness against your neighbour, and that too, in relation both to the guilt and do- minion of sin : chap. v. 7, 10. — iiyiaaOrire, you have been sanctified) a man is called holy in respect to God. — g&xa/w0?jrg, ye have been justified) corresponds to, the unrighteous ,. ver. 9. I was formerly unwilling to commit to paper, what emphasis the apos- trophe in aAX? adds to this verb more than to the two preceding (comp. 2 Cor. vii. 11), lest some one should hiss me. Consider however the antithesis, the unrighteous. Without an apostrophe, aXAa is emphatic, but when aAA’ has the apostrophe, the accent and emphasis fall upon the verb, (which stands in opposition to that fault, which is reproved at ver. 7, etc.,) namely, on the word ye are justified, because the discourse here is directed against [injustice] unrighteousness ; and so in 2 Cor. vii. 11. [aAA’ is apostrophised before] ixd/xqftv, revenge , for this is a prin- cipal part of the zeal , previously spoken of, arising from holy sorrow ; add Mark ii. 1 7.. — h r& ovofiun, in the name) From this name we have the forgiveness of sins. — h r& Uv?v^an, by the Spirit) From this Spirit, the new life. — fipwv, of our) For these reasons, he shows them, that there is now no longer any hinder- ance to their becoming heirs of the kingdom of GocL
12.. nccvra, all things) The apostle takes care that no one should abuse those remarks of his, which he was soon about to make concerning meats and the belly ; comp. x. 23. The ex- pression, all things , is to be referred to what, follows ; not to for- nication, although this is the principal subject of his argument ; but to a subject accessory and incidental, in regard to the eating of meats, on which he treats also below, x. 29. On that same point it is repeated, that all things are lawful to me, which can
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