1 The sense seems, though not very clear, owing to Bengal's extreme brevity, All ought to have been by this time on the one and the same path of faith. For faith is the distinguishing characteristic of those who, as travellers, are seeking to arrive at the goal. — ED.
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concerning perfection, comp. Phil. iii. 15. — ^X/x/ct?, of the stature) that Christ may be all and in all : fam/a, spiritual stature is the fulness of Christ.
14. Myjxsri) that we may be not, as formerly and as yet. — VJJT/O/, children) NJJT/O/, children, are opposed to a man in the second degree, and to a young man in the first : a perfect man, who can no longer increase in stature, but yet in other respects be comes more perfect ; a child, who scarcely begins to grow. — xX&dftw£^M4vo/, tossing to and fro [as billows]) inwardly, upward and downward, even without wind.— xspipspo/tsvoi <xdvri dvs^u, carried about with every wind) outwardly [with every wind that comes from without], hither and thither, others assaulting us, — • wptfcfr by the sleight) A metaphor taken from the player at dice, who frames his cast of the dice, so that the numbers may always turn up which may suit his purpose. — /cw0od»/av) The Methodists of the Church of Rome are much disposed to use this word : see ch. vi. 11 [where rag {teQodsias is expressly joined to rov diafSoXov], note. Add D. Michaelis' Inaugural Dissertation on the exertions and methods (tricks) of the Church of Rome. — rye K\dv7)g,1 of error) i.e. of Satan. The Metonymy of the abstract [for the concrete : error, for the Parent of error, Satan] expresses the concealed mode of acting which the enemy uses.
15. 'AXi;4f6omf, speaking the truth) In antithesis to error [irXdvYig]. On this same word, truth, see ver. 21, 24. — sv ay any, in love) by which the body is compacted together. Here we have the beginning [the prow], and in ver. 16 the end [the stern : prora — puppis~\. The words, speaking the truth, and in love, are conjoined. The latter is the more simple. — av%7)<ru>j,sv, we may grow) This depends on that (/Va), in ver. 14. This av^fftg, in crease, [as it is expressed in] ver. 16, comes in between the [state of] children [ver. 14] and that of the full-grown man [avfya r&Xeiov, ver. 13]. — e<$ avrbv, into Him) Paul has Jesus in his mind, and first says Him, and then afterwards shows of whom he is speak ing. — rd iravra, all things) supply Kara, according to, in : we
1 'Ej/ vetvovpyta, Trpo; TVJV petiodeioiv rq$ TrXavYi;, " by craftiness, with a view to a methodized plan of deception." Beng., however, because of the anti thesis uvfyuvuv, takes Tc'ha.vvig = Satan, and perhaps takes the sense thus, « By the methodized craftiness of the (parent of) error."— ED.