of charity, for thou wilt lay up for thyself a good deposit for the day of necessity." Otherwise the rich do not collect treasures for themselves, but for others. To collect by giving, forms a pleasant Oxymoron [see Append.] The preposition OOTO has admirable force in avodyiffauptfyvrag, apart [in store] for a distant time. — fapehiw xaXov, a good foundation) An elliptical apposition, i.e. uvodviffavpffyvras dyaavpbv, namely, Qs/tsXiov %a\6v. The metaphor is cumulative, as in Ps. xxxvii. 5 (6), with the explanation of Gejer. He calls works of beneficence a good foundation, to which is opposed the uncertainty of riches. — 0tyteX/os, "ip'% that on which we depend as a security (a bond), a pledge. [It is commonly called a basis (fundum). — V. g.] — ilc, TO fj,sX\ov, for the time to come) The antithesis is, in the present world (sv TU> vvv aiwi), ver. 17 ; comp. ch. iv. 8. — sc/Xa/Swvra/, may lay hold) as persons emerging from shipwreck. The merchant saved from shipwreck [in this case, as contrasted with all other cases of shipwreck], finds his treasures sent home before him. In ver. 12 mention is made of a fight : the ex pression is the same, but the figure is different. — rq$ l ovrut £&%) Comp. ovrusy ch. v. 3, 5, 16. True life [that icJdch is life indeed'] from the living God.
20. rll Tifio&ss, 0 Timothy) He calls him familiarly his son, ch. i. 18, with gravity and affection. What comes last in ver. 20, 21, corresponds to the beginning of the epistle, and is to be explained from it. — TVV KapaQfixqv, what is committed) i. 18. So the com mandment, ver. 14 ; 2 Tim. i. 14, note. The opposite in this passage is vain babblings, emptiness of words. — rag (3s(3faove xevo- puvtag, profane and vain babblings) LXX., rov$ xzvoXoyovvras for Ds2¥S¥Dn, Is. viii. 19. Barbarous words were formerly used by the Magi, which are said to have a secret power, though they have in reality none, and are altogether vain. Paul seems to have had respect to this circumstance, as he has substituted the more significant term; for <pwri, a voice, an utterance, expresses vehe mence; comp. 2 Tim. ii. 15, 16, note, [where r
1 This reading, to which the larger Ed. had given rather little counte nance, is preferred to the reading «<Wou. by the margin of the 2d Ed., with the concurrence of the Germ. Vers. — E. B.
AD(A) corrected, Gfg Vulg. read rw ovrvg. Rec. Text has r with only inferior uncial MSS. — ED.