making gain), a thing given for the sake of procuring pro perty.
6. "Etn 8i} but is) He does not wish altogether to deny that godliness is a gain. — iropitipbg) a ready and sure (' expedite') mode of providing a living.1 — ft'eyac, great) for it produces
a mind contented with its lot, unknown to all others. — / auTupxsiag, with contentment] This is the companion of godliness.
7. Ovdevy nothing) A man, when he is born, consists of soul and body : all other things are to him foreign and external. — eiG7jV£'yxafj,sv, we have brought in) Supply, and yet we have obtained life (including a livelihood) ; see Matt. vi. 25. — dqXov or/) to wit [Engl. Yers. and it is certain that] ; a form of declaring. — ovd? Jggwyxgfr, nor carry out) Why then do we heap up much wealth ? The only object to be aimed at is that we may have vopw, an unembarrassed journey, till we reach our true country.
8. "Exovrtg, having) It is by implication affirmed, that we shall have them. — diarpopai) food (means of sustenance), by which we may in the meantime be nourished. This is the meaning of did. — ffxeffaur/tara, clothing) also a covering or shelter. — rotroi$) with these, although money be wanting, ver. 10. — &pxtts$w6p.tfat) we shall have enough in fact : why then not also in feeling ?
9. BouXqu.gi/o/9 wishing) This wish is the enemy of a mind con tented with its lot ; it is not the wealth itself (that is the enemy of contentment) : rich men are not therefore commanded to cast away their wealth, ver. 17, 18. — tfXoyrgfy to be rich) to have more than food and clothing. — J^cr/Vrouff/ — j3y0/£outf/, fall into — drown) A sad gradation. — xtipatfpbt) There is a Paronomasia [the signification of a word changed by a slight change of the letters] : cro^/<r/x^, irsipas^s. Temptation is opposed to ' food,' like wise to faith : a snare is opposed to i clothing' and to righteous ness : < lusts9 are opposed to " a contented mind." — Tay/5a, a snare) Therefore they do not find TO/?OV, true gam. — oXeQpov, destruction) of the body. — cwrwXg/av, perdition) also of the soul : comp. of all, ver. 10. This is opposed to that expression, great gain, ver. 6.
tion to be, "that godliness is a gain," a way to advance one's worldly interest : not as Engl. Vers., "that gain is godliness."— ED.
1 noptvpos is strictly the act of providing a living, means of gain : the living thus gained, gain. — ED.