law," Tit. iii. 9. — %p5ka/) Sophocles has the phrase, i/o>w which is explained as equivalent to vo^odsnTv by the Scholiast ; and so Paul is speaking in this passage, not of the hearer of the law, but of the teacher.
9. E/'<3o>5, knowing) construed with -/j^rai, use. — dixai^fora righteous man) Many things which follow are put in antithesis to this one word. Therefore righteousness is widely spread. — ov xs/rai) is not in force, doth not exist among us, in its applica tion is not intended [" is not made"~\. Therefore a true teacher ought not to use the law against a righteous person, Gal. v. 23. The antithesis is avrfaeirai, in the following verse. — avopoif, for the [lawless] unrighteous) Paul here names the unrighteous ac cording to the order of the Decalogue ; from which it is evident that the commandment, Honour thy father, is fourth, not third.1 — avo'Mie nat avvvordxroi$, lawless and disobedient) Referring to the first commandment, the foundation of the law, the founda tion of all obedience. — ateftsff/ xal &/jux,pru\o%, for the ungodly and sinners) not reverencing the i name' of God, and thereby in volved in great guilt,2 Ex. xx. 7. — avo<r/o/$ y.ai fafifaois, for un holy and profane) despising the true worship of God with a profane mind.3 Such were those very persons whom Paul notices; comp. iv. 7. Be/S^ogis compounded of the inseparable preposition, (3&, Lat. ve, and fir^og, a threshold, especially a sacred threshold : whence P's(3q\oi roVo/, o/ j8«ro/ xai rots ru^oDov, places accessible to the common people. See E. Schmid. on Matt, xii., and Eustathius.
10. ' AvdpaKoBiffraTii) who make free men avfydvofta, slaves, by violence. They do not differ far from these, who do not levy (legally enlist) soldiers, but take them away by allurements, fraud, violence. — erepov, any other thing) inconsistent with the ninth and tenth commandment.4 — r»j vyiaivobffy) didaffxaXia, to sound doctrine) So 2 Tim. iv. 3 ; Tit. i. 9, ii. 1 ; and wholesome
1 The Church of Rome suppresses the second commandment, and divides the tenth into two. So Beng. also. Thus our fifth is \i\$ fourth. To make our fifth into third, their third and fourth must be joined and made second. —Ev.
2 Referring to the third commandment, as we divide them. — ED.
3 This will answer to our fourth commandment. — ED.
4 i.e. Our tenth divided into two, ninth and tenth. The t7riopx,ot$ and
answer to our ninth, Bengel's eighth. — ED.