usage," etc., Franz, de Interpret., p. 47. That would be indeed quite right. At present it is so much the more our duty to lament, that many esteem the dignity of the public assemblies of the Church to be greater only in proportion as the regard paid to Scripture is the less. — V. g.]
3. ' OpsiXoftiv, we are bound) Urged by exultation of mind on grounds so manifest. So also ch. ii. 13. [There is herein shown a generous sense of a debt of that kind. — V. g.] — «i;/oi/, worthy, meet, befitting) On account of the magnitude of the fact. Comp. 1 Cor. xvi. 4. [Are the proofs of thy Christianity 'worthy' of thanks being given to God on account of them by those who know thee ? — V. g.] — ^ Kfartr 9i ay any, faith ; love) Of hope, ver. 4, 5. For these three graces are usually joined.
4. 'H{ta$ auroOg, we ourselves) Paul himself, with Silvanus and Timothy, gloried, as being a witness ; he not merely heard of the fact from witnesses. — b^sp, for) construed with ev^apiffrsTv, to render thanks ', ver. 3. Hence at the end of ver. 3 we must put a comma; comp. Col. i. 5, note. The parallelism [the clauses and words in ver. 3, 4, standing parallel to one another] gives force. — xat viffrsug, and faith) Faith here denotes faithful con stancy in confession of the truth.
5. "Ev^g/y/^a) namely, ov [It being a token, etc.] The Accusa tive absolute ; comp. Acts xxvi. 3, note. The fact of your avt^sffOai, enduring, ver. 4, is a proof or token. — d/xa/ag, just, righteous) What is stated as a Proposition in this clause is dis-