6. KevoTg Aoyo/s, with vain words) by which the anger of God is despised, and by which men strive to withdraw themselves from their duty, to consider good as nothing, and to extenuate and varnish over evil [in which moreover all things everywhere abound. — V. g.] This is the genus ; there are three species at ver. 4. So the LXX., //^ fjjtpi/JbvdrMGav sv \oyoig nsvoTC) Exod. V. 9.
— <5/d ravra, because of these things) because of fornication, etc. —57 bpyri rot ©sod, the anger of God) The antithesis to the recon ciliation [on God's part to man, by His forgiving in Christ],
1 Taken by Zeugma out of /j*jjSg o'yo^ae^ler&a, ver. 3. — ED.
2 See Append. A similar sound and form in two nouns, producing a pleasant antithesis.— ED.
ver. 2, ch. iv. 32. — J-TT/ roue u/oig rJjs affeifa/ae, on the children of disobedience) in reference to heathenism.
7. MJJ, &e no£) lest the anger of God should come upon you. Two parts; be not willing, and be not willing, ver. 7, and 11. Fellowship both with wicked men, ver. 7, and with wicked works, ver. 11, must be avoided.
8. Sxoro's — <pas, darkness — light) The abstract for the concrete, exceedingly emphatic ; for, children of light, follows.
9. CO Kapirog rov <purb$,1 the fruit of light) The antithesis is, the unfruitful works of darkness, ver. 11. — Iv, in) is in, consists in, etc. — ayaduffvv?) xat dixaiotfuvr) nai aXqfaicf,, in goodness, and righte ousness, and truth) These are opposed to the vices just before described, from ch. iv. 25, and onwards.
10. Ao/i/^a^oi/rgj, proving) Construe with walk, ver. 8.
11. As, xa/) KOLI, even : it is not enough to abstain [yourself, you must also reprove others]. — sX'eyfcsre, reprove) by words and deeds worthy of the light.
12. Tap, for) The reason why he speaks indefinitely, ver. 11, of the works of darkness, whereas he described definitely the fruit of light, ver. 9. At the same time the kindness, the jus tice, the wholesomeness of the reproving of them, are distinctly shown from this circumstance. — xpvpfy secretly) in avoidance of the light, and most frequently. — \>v alruv) by them, who are in darkness. — aiff^pbv, it is a shame) Writing rather familiarly to the Corinthians, he names them ; in like manner to the Romans, because it was necessary ; here however he acts with greater dignity. — xa/) even to speak of, much less to do them. — Xeysiv, to speak of) They may be judged by their contraries [ver. 9], goodness, righteousness, truth.
13. As) but ; although those things cannot be spoken of or named. — sXsy^o^sva, reproved) by you, ver. 11. — L/TTO rov <purb$ puvspovrai, are made manifest by the light) <pdo?, pavipoz, are con jugates. — pavzpourat, are made manifest) that their shamefulness may be known, whether those who have been guilty of doing them treat their reprovers with scorn or repent of them. — irav, everything) The abstract for the concrete ; for the subject here
1 Rec. Text has -a-vevftaros with later Syr. But ABD(A) corrected later, Gfff Vulg. Lucif. have QUTO$. — ED.
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