for this end, with this hope. — jca/ XOCT/W//.SV *a/ oveifafype&a,, we both labour and suffer reproach) despising the advantages and aids (safeguards against suffering) of this life : ove/d/^o/^a, in the Middle voice [we suffer ourselves to be reproached]. — ^X-r/x- CC/AI-V, we have hoped) we have placed (rested) our hope, viz. for the future, despising present things. — ££IT/, living) who will also give life to us, ver 8 ; 2 Tim. ii. 18. — irdvruv avdpunuv, ^d- Xiffra Kiffruv, of all men, especially of those that believe) Paul shows that he, and men like him, hope for a double salvation from God : salvation [or safety] in this life, for God saves [or else preserves'^ all men (nay, even He wishes all men to have salvation for ever) : as also, what is of greater consequence, in the life that is to come, for He especially saves [or preserves] them that believe, who even in this life also experience greater pro tection, on account of their greater temptation. — //-aA/ora, most of all) There lies hid beneath this word the strength of the argu ment from the less to the greater.1
211. Taura) these things, dismissing all other things.
12. Mjjfo/V, no man) Conduct thyself so, that no one can de spise thee on the ground of being a young man. Worthless old men are glad to do so. — rturos, a type, an example) The way of obtaining true authority. — h "hoyy, in word) public and private. — sv dvaffrpotpr) in daily intercourse or conversation. — sv
sv tfvevftar/, in love — in the Spirit) 2 Cor. vi. 6, note.3 — sv in faith) Faith, considered apart from its office in justification, enters often into the middle of an enumeration of this kind, and denotes sincerity of the mind trusting in God, in prosperity and adversity : ch. vi. 11; 2 Tim. ii. 22: comp. Gal. v. 22, which passage has faith likewise in the middle of the enumera tion. — sv ayvsicc, in purity) ch. v. 2.
13. T/j dvayvwo-e/, to reading) of the Sacred Scripture in the Church. To this are added two principal genera : exhortation, which refers to conduct ; and doctrine, which refers to knowledge ; ch. vi. 2, at the end ; Rom. xii. 7, 8.
1 If God saves, in a sense, even the ungodly ; a fortiori, the godly. — ED.
2 Tltaruv, of believers) who place their hope in the living GOD. — V. g.
3 « By the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned." Love follows immediately after mention of the Spirit, as being its principal fruit, and that which governs the use of spiritual gifts. — ED.