Ver. 5. The practical conclusion of the statement respecting Christ’s servants (see note on ὥστε, iii. 21): ‘So then do not before the time be passing any judg- ment”. τι, the cognate acc. Ξκρίσιν τινά, as in John vii. 24. πρὸ καιροῦ (the fit time, not the set time) signifies prematurely (so 7Eésch., Eumen., 367), as ἐν καιρῷ seasonably (Luke xii. 42). Our Lord gives another reason for not judging, in Matt. vii. 1 ff.; this prohibition, like that, points to His tribunal, bidding men hold back their verdicts on each other in deference to His (cf. Rom. xiv. το). “Until the Lord come:” ἕως ἂν indi- cates contingency in the time, not the event itself; for this uncertainty, cf. 1 Thess. ν. 2, Matt. xxv. 13, Luke xii. 39, Acts i. 7, etc. His coming is the ἀποκάλυψις toward which the hope of this Church was directed from the first (i. 7: see note); it will reveal with per- fect evidence the matters on which the Cor. are officiously and ignorantly pro- nouncing.—@s καὶ φωτίσει κ.τ.λ.: “who shall also illuminate the hidden things of darkness”. φωτίζω points to the cause, as φανερόω to the result, and ἀποκαλύπτω (ii. το) to the mode of Divine disclosures. Christ’s presence of itself illuminates (cf. 2 Cor. iv. 6, and other parls.); His Parousia is light as well as fire (iii. 13)— both instruments ofjudgment. τὰ κρυπτὰ
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