is used, not -To/g^.1 — sv ay airy, in love) Construe witli the edifying of itself.
17. ToS™ olv X'eyv, this I say then) He returns to the point with which he set out, ver. 1. — pyx'sri vpag ntptirartTv, that ye henceforth walk not) This is an antithesis to ver. 1. — sv paraiorqri, in vanity) The root of such walking, departure from the know ledge of the true God, Rom. i. 21 ; 1 Thess. iv. 5 : in (sv) is to be construed with they walk pdvjj vepiirartfy not with u/*a; flrep/flrargfo]. Vanity is explained at large in ver. 18 ; walking in ver. 19.
18. ' EffxonfffA&voi rfi diavoiaovr&g, Having the understanding dark ened) This verse has four clauses. The third is to be referred to the first, and in it ovffav answers to ovreg ; the fourth, to the second. For ovreg is connected also in Tit. i. 16, as here, with the preceding epithet [jS&Xuxro/ ovrt$]. The participles, darkened, alienated, take for granted, that the Gentiles, before they had revolted from the faith of their fathers, nay rather before Adam's fall, had been partakers of light and life ; comp. be renewed, ver. 23.2 — r%g £w?j£, the life) of which, ch. ii. 5. — roD ©sou, of God) The spiritual life is kindled in believers from the very life of God. — 3<7rwpuffiv [Engl. Vers. blindness], hardness) The antithesis is life : life and feeling (opposed to hardness) exist and fail to gether. Comp. Mark iii. 5, note. Hwpuais, hardness, is contra distinguished from blindness, where the latter is . expressly noticed ; otherwise it includes it in itself. — xapdiag, of heart) Rom. i. 21.
19. ' A.xvpi-'ynxfait) A very significant term, in which pain (aXyog) is used by Synecdoche for the whole sensibility of the affections and understanding, whether painful or pleasant. For pain urges us to seek the means of a cure ; and when the pain is removed, not only hope, but also the desire and thought of good things are lost, so that a man becomes senseless, shameless, hopeless. That constitutes hardness, ver. 18. Despairing (Des-
1 The middle being reflexive, i.e. the object relating to the same person as the subject. — ED.
2 Implying a previous state of innocence. — ED.
3 A/« rv\v &y vo ton/, °n account of the ignorance) This of itself is the com mencement of their wretched condition. Rom. i. 21, 23, [also ver. 28]. —