impurity and holiness alone. It is by a Euphemism that the apostle does not call it adultery. — sv r& irpdy^ari, in the matter or business) The article points out the particular business in hand at this or that time, 2 Cor. vii. 11. — afatybv, brother) The reason assigned (^Etiology) for avoiding the transgression [rb ixr*f$a/WM*, viz. adultery]. — gx&xos, avenger) Heb. xiii. 4, note. — 6 Kup/o£, the Lord) Christ, the Judge.
7. 'Ev dyiatfftti, in sanctijication) SKI, for, on account of, rather expresses the end ; sv, in, the nature or character of the thing [viz. of our calling].
8. 'O dderuv) he who despiseth this thing. — rbv xa/ dovra, WJio has also given) The word also intimates that a new importance is here added to what immediately precedes. — rb TIvsv/Aot, avrov rb aytov stg v/^ag, His Holy Spirit to you) Eph. iv. 30.1
9. Oy xpeiav expftsv, we have no need) Heb. viii. II.2 — faoftf- daxroi, taught of God) God imbues [not teaches, strictly] us with love by regeneration ; therefore the word taught has a Cata- chresis [an application of a word not in its strictly regular sense], that it may be opposed to the writing [ypdpziv vpTv]. — eis rb dyavtiv, with respect to loving) The force of Divine doctrine flows into (has its confluence in) love.
11. c^/Xor/^g^a/ ijtfvy/d^siv) that you study (be ambitious) to be quiet) An Oxymoron.3 Political ambition is ashamed to be quiet. Its opposite is -mpttpydfyffdou [to be busybodies, opposed to, with quietness — work], 2 Thess. iii. 11, 12. It is therefore added here, <xpd<s<teiv rd }'dia, to do your own business. There is, however, a strict propriety imparted to the word (fnXon^sTffdai from ver. 12, at the end.4 — epydfyaQou, to labour) It was necessary to mention this to men who had acquired a taste for heaven. Men im-
is the reading of BDG/^: "in vobis " is that of g and Vulg. ; but JipAs of A and Rec. Text. — ED.
2 B (ti'xoftsv) D corrected, G Vulg., later Syr.j^r, support the first per son plural. The MS. Amiatinus of Vulg., like B, has the past tense, ' habuimus.' "Ewftw is Lachmann's reading. But Tisch., as Rec. Text, exeret with Syr. and Memph. — ED.
3 See App. The figure by which things contrary (as here ambition and quiet) are acutely and wisely joined together.
* i.e. " Having nothing which you need " to solicit ambitiously from others. — ED.