which needed to be most recommended to them ; comp. ver. 15. He maintains this order, that he may enumerate the sins com mitted with our neighbour, those against God, those against our neighbour, and those in regard to ourselves ; and to this order the enumeration of the fruit of the Spirit corresponds, —axa- Qapria, arfsXys/a, uncleanness, lasciviousness) 2 Cor. xii. 21, note.
20. Oaftaaxs/a) See LXX., Exod. vii. 11, and in many other passages. That Paul is not speaking here of natural poisoning by potions, but of magic, is evident from this, that he joins it not with murder, but with idolatry. Comp. Rev. xxi. 8, note. — <5r£o<rra<j7a/, seditions} respecting civil affairs. — atpefcis, heresies) respecting sacred things : 1 Cor. xi. 19.
20, 21. ZyXoi — pdovoiy emulations [jealousies] — envyings) Both emulation [jealousy] and envy are dissatisfied with the advan tages enjoyed by another ; — emulation [jealousy], for the sake of the man's own advantage ; envy, even without any advantage to the person himself. — spifeTai) This differs from epsig : 'ipig, Hader, quarrel, dispute ; spifafa, Triitz, brawling, defiance. tpiQtia, im plies a wish to be greater, epi$ wishes at least not to be less.1 — wpoteyu, 1 tell you before) before the event. — fytft, to you) The maintainers of justification by works are often careless.2
22.3 'A/OCTTJ, love) It is this grace, as the leader, that4 intro duces the family. Fewer words are used with respect to what is good, because good is more simple, and one virtue often has many things contrary to it ; comp. Eph. iv. 31. — %«pa, joy) concerning things that are good. — ^pjjoronjs, aya&uffvvq) differ.5
1 Engl. Vers. renders it weakly strife, and epis previously (or Ijoe/^Bec. Text in oppos. to AB), variance. Wahl derives eptOeta from eptfas, a man who does bodily work for pay : and explains it, the utmost envy shut up in the breast, and a proneness to scheming plots. Here spiOeiott will thus be factions, and the bad artifices of the factious. — ED.
2 roc. rotoivTot,, such things) If any man is guilty, not indeed of all those things, but at least of some or one of them, he has lost the kingdom of God.
-v.g.
3 CO x.a.pirog, the fruit) Singular, not plural. The works of the flesh are many, and these, too, scattered ; the fruit of the Spirit constitutes an entire whole, and that, too, united. — V. g.
4 Or else, " With this Grace as the leader Paul introduces the family." — ED.
5 Jerome, Comm. ad Oal. v. 22, explains wwnvrw as Benignity concilia tory towards others : but u.yu,$u<jvvv\ as goodness, which, though ready to do