23. Tti vvivftart ro\j vcb$, in the spirit of the mind) 1 Cor. xiv. 14. The spirit is the inmost part of the mind.
24. Tbv xaivbv] Tbv v'eov is used, Col. iii. 10, of that which is native [the new man becomes natural, i.e. the true nature] in be lievers ; but here dvavcoDctfa/ has been used by him just before. [Therefore he does not repeat vsov, the conjugate]. Vice versa in the passage of Col. just quoted, avaKaivov/wvov is subjoined [v'zov having gone just before] concerning the aims and pursuits of believers.1 — %ri(t6evra, which has been created) at the beginning of Christianity. This new man is created in Christ : comp. ch. ii. 10.
25. To -^si/dog, tying} The mentioning of lying and truth in conversation2 is properly added to the universal commendation of truth. — 6V/, because] Col. iii. 11, note. — aXX^Xwy, of one another) Jews and Greeks, ibid. — ,a£/^, members) ver. 4.
26. 9Opyi?eaQs Kai fjur, apapravere, be angry and sin not) So the LXX., Ps. iv. 5. Anger is neither commanded, nor quite prohi bited ; but this is commanded, not to permit sin to enter into anger : it is like poison, which is sometimes used as medicine, but must be managed with the utmost caution. Often the force of the mood [the Imperative mood] falls only upon a part of what is said, Jer. x. 24.3 — 6 »jX/o£, the sun) The feeling kept up during the night is deeply seated. — /AJ) Icr/cbsrw, let — not go down) Deut. xxiv. 15, oux sxidvffsrai o rf^ioc, IT' aurip, the sun shall not go down upon it. — IT! r& <rapop'yi<rft& v/tuv, upon your wrath*) Not only
1 Neo$, recent, lately originated, in opposition to what was originated some time back. Ka;j<oV, new, not yet used, in opposition to that which has existed long and been in use: vtov olvoy, but xotivws dyxov;. Matt. ix. 16, 17. So vsos oivdpaTTog in Col. refers to the dvayewwic;, whereas the x,a,i<jos is one who differs from the former man : the veo$ is one who is oiuotxotivovftsvos K<x,r iix,ova of God. — Tittm. Syn. Gr. Test. Kotivos more applied to the results of renewal on the Christian character and walk. Nsog-, the new nature of believers. Nso$ is applied to persons in the sense young, which %aivo$ is not. Kxtvo; is what is fresh, as opposed to what is ivorn and trite. It is also said of what is strange and foreign. — ED.
2 'AAflJte/**, truth, ver. 21, 24.— V. g.
3 " O Lord, correct me, but with judgment, not in thine anger." Where the force falls on the imperat. correct, not in its full extent, but with the limitations, with judgment, and not in thine anger : in fact, the main force rests on these limitations. — ED.
4 Ilapopyia/xog is not = opyv]. The former is absolutely forbidden : the