here mentioned. — xevodo^oi) See Chrys. de Sacerd.1 § 587. — vpoxaXovpivoi, provoking) to envy. The relative exists on the part of [has reference to] the stronger. — pQovowres, envying) The correlative exists on the part of [has reference to] the weaker.
1. 'A(5sXpo/, brethren) An admonition peculiarly suited to the Galatians now follows. — lav xat, if even) He who provokes, often considers another as the person provoking ; but if another has been really overtaken in a fault, still we ought not to consider ourselves provoked, but rather to consult [to have regard to] the benefit of the other : lav xai denotes a thing easy to occur, but not of too frequent occurrence with spiritual persons. — cjy>oXjjp05j, has been overtaken) The passive, as well as the appellation, man, re fers to the procuring of pardon ; but the preposition Kpo, before [the over in overtaken], is to be referred either to the offence, comp. Wisd. xvii. 17, irpQ\q<p&tiS) or rather to the party injured, so that he is said to have been overtaken [first taken, i.e. before we injured him — without our injuring him] who, without re ceiving any injury, has injured us. As Herodian says, I. 5, rot)g , those who have been formerly benefactors. — in some fault) for example, vain-glory, v. 26 : or a return to legal bondage ; comp. the (r& auruv *a,pct#rju(4ttft) through their fall [i.e. the Jews' fall into legal bondage, and consequent rejection of Jesus], Rom. xi. II, 12. — o/ Kv&v^ariKoi) you, who are strong in the Spirit, and watchfully observe that fall. So, the strong, Rom. xv. 1. This agrees with in the Spirit, which immediately after occurs (comp. ch. v. 25). — xarapri^srz) restore him, as a member of the Church. All, who can, should
1 What then, says he, is the food of those wild beasts ? (he means the affections of the soul) : the food of vain-glory (x£?o3o£/«?) is honour and praise ; and of folly (dTrovotot^, the greatness of power and authority ; and of envy (/3otffx,stvtot,g), the celebrity of our neighbours ; of avarice, the ambition of those who supply the occasions ; of licentiousness, luxury, and the perpetual intercourse with women — and the one is the food of the other. — E. B.