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sustain thee. Casting , watch. There is a close agreement between
these two duties, Luke xii. 22, 37 ; and Peter adds to each its own because. God provides : therefore do not be anxious. The devil seeks : therefore watch. — /xsXs/, there is a care) Not so strong a word as anxiety.
8. N^arg, watch) Let this be your care. Watch with the soul. — yprjyopyjffarey watch) with the body. — 6 ai iridntog — xara<7r/?j, the adversary — may devour) He seeks the righteous at once by the appearance of justice and by violence : Apocalypse xii. 10. — upvojuevog, roaring) with fury. — seeking) with treachery. — riv a, whom) especially of the faithful, Job i. 8. — xaracr/^, he may devour) First with reference to the soul, and then with reference to the body. But he especially lays snares by means of the sorrow arising from cares, which is in- jurious to faith.
9. Tp -r/tfrg/, through or by the faith) Constructed with resist [not 11 stedfast in the faith,” as Engl. Vers.] — ra aura rwv Tradri/xaruv, the very same sufferings) Not merely like sufferings, but the very same. The same governs the Dative dogXpor/jr/, brotherhood. Thus Lucretius: eadern aliis sopitus quiete est. Chrysost. de Sacerd., p. 202 : g ig rfa aurryv hetvoig sxtflrtriiv yU,av/av, to fall into the same madness with them. The meaning of the apostle is : the same sufferings which happen to your brethren are also undergone by you. Comp. Matt. v. 12; 2 Cor. i. 6 ; Phil. i. 30. [Therefore it is not a bad sign in a person, if the devil harasses him with sufferings. — V. g.] — sv xoV/aw) in the whole of this world , which lies in the evil one, the devil : ver. 8. It is an- tithetical to the eternal glory of God , ver. 10. — <xds\<p6rrlriy to your brotherhood) of Jews and Gentiles. — g^/rgXg/frtfa/, are accom- plished) The measure of sufferings is gradually filled up.
10. Tlucrig x“P,T0$) °f an(l unmixed grace , which begins and completes, which calls and settles (founds). [It is an act of grace, when God sends even sufferings upon us. — V. g.] — h , in) Taken with who hath called. — 6X/yov, a little ) However great it seems, it is little and short in comparison with eternal glory. — vaOovr ac, when you have suffered) Some sufferings are to be endured, then perfection comes, etc. — aurog, He Himself) [without the aid of man]. Do you only watch, and resist the enemy : God will perform the rest. Comp, the /, Josh. xiii. 6, 1. — xuruprlczi, will perfect) so that no defect re- main in you. The Doxology which follows agrees with the Indica- tive, rather than with the Optative, which some here read.1 Comp.
1 xocTotpTi'ati, oTYipi&i, etc., in the Future, is the reading of AB and most Ver- sions, except that, whilst many MSS. of Vulg. read “ confirm abit,” Amiat. MS.