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ship} of which ver. 13. — tsrmywp&aO s, ye are straitened ) by the narrowness of your heart on account of your late offence. — sv roTg (S'ir'kbyyyotc, u/awv, in your bowels ) which have been grieved on my account.
13. T v\v) supply xaru, according to. — avry) the same ; that you may have the same feeling, as we. — uvrifuedfav, recompense ) which you owe to me as a father; comp. Gal. iv. 12. — ug rsxvoig Xeyw, I speak as to children) He hints in this parenthesis, that he demands nothing severe or bitter. — vrXaruv0v}r e, be ye enlarged ) A double exhortation. Throw yourselves open before the Lord, and then before us ; comp. viii. 5 ; be enlarged , that the Lord may dwell in you, ver. 14 — ch. vii. 1, receive us, ch. vii. 2.
14. Mj? ym<f&&, do not become ) a soft expression for be not. —
erspo^vyouvreg, yoked with an alien party [one alien in spirit]) [un- equally yoked’], Lev. xix. 19, LXX. ra ffou ov xaro^svffsig
tripoZyyu, thou shalt not let thy cattle engender with a diverse kind. The believer and the unbeliever are utterly heterogeneous. The notion of slavery approaches to that of a yoke. The word DHDVJn, Num. xxv. 5. The apostle strongly dissuades the Cor- inthians from marriages with unbelievers ; comp. 1 Cor. vii. 39, only in the Lord. He however uses such reasons, as may deter them from too close intercourse with unbelievers even in other relations [besides marriage] : comp. v. 16 ; 1 Cor. viii. 10, x. 14. — aft'nsrotg, to unbelievers) heathens. He pulls up all the fibres of the foreign root [of foreign and alien connections]. — rig, what?) Five questions, of which the first three have the force of an ar- gument ; the fourth, or what , and the fifth, have at the same time also the force of a conclusion. — dixaioavvri xoc: avofiicc, what fellowship is there between righteousness and unrighteousness) The state of believers and unbelievers is altogether different.
15. BsX/ap, Belial) The lxx. always express in Greek words the Hebrew, ; but here Paul uses the Hebrew word for the purpose of Euphemism [avoiding something unpleasant by the use of a term less strictly appropriate]. This word is an appel- lative, 1 Sam. xxv. 25, and occurs for the first time in Deut. xiii. 14. Hiller, Onom. S. p. 764. Belijahal, without ascending ; i.e., of the meanest condition, of a very low and obscure rank. Paul calls Satan Belial. Nevertheless Satan is usually put in
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