Φιλημα besides, Lk. vii. 45, xxii. 48; Prov. xxvii. 6; Cant. i. 4.
5 Gal. vi. 11; Phm. 19.
21. Ὁ ἆ ἀσπασμὸς, 22. et tug fod Ἡ φιλεῖ τὸν " Κύριον
(λεω in this sense, Mt. xxvi, h. iii. 17. The noun besides.
d Col. iv. 18; 2 f 2 Tim. iii. 10; Mt. xvi. 24; Rev. xiv. 11.
vii. 20, where οὐ θέλω = nolo); but Wr. (pp. 599-602) rightly distinguishes such instances as thisand ix. 2 (cf. note) fromthe above class of combinations, accounting for the οὐ as contradictory to some tacit assertion—‘‘if any one does not love the Lord” (as he ought, or pretends, to do): it is a spurtous love that is accursed—a cold, false heart which, knowing the Lord, does not really love Him (ef. viii. 1 ff., xiii. 1 f.). The use of φιλέω for ἀγαπάω (only in Tit. 11. 15 elsewhere in P.: cf. the interchange in John xxi. 15 ff.) is noticeable: for the distinction, see Gm., s.v. Φιλέω; Cr., s.v. ἀγαπάω; Trench, N.T. Syn., § 12.—ov φιλεῖ strikes a deep note of accusation; it is a charge of heartlessness—human affection to the Master is wanting, to say nothing of higher feeling, as with Judas and his traitor kiss (see Mt., xxvi. 47 f.); perhaps ἐν φιλήματι just above suggested this ¢tAct.—Paul’s curse on the Lord’s false lovers recalls xii. 3 (see note on ἀνάθεμα) : the haters of Jesus outside the Church, inspired by Satan, call Him “‘ anathema” instead of ‘‘Lord’’; and those who bow the knee to Him with a feigned heart are themselves anathema—this cry a retort to that.—aTe for ἔστω (see Wr., p. 85) prevails in N.T.; itis common in later Gr.
(5) The second clause of the motto, Μαρὰν 48a, is Aramaic transliterated into Gr. ; the original cannot be quite certainly restored.—Mapay, it is fairly certain, re- presents Maran (Syrian) or Maran’a (Aramaic: the final ’a of the suffixed noun having coalesced with the initial ’a of the vb.), and ἀθά the pf. Peal of αλα”, to come. But it is doubtful whether '¢tha’ is strictly past—*‘ our Lord hath come” (so Cm. and the ancients, with the Syriac Vers.; and Kautzsch in his Gramm. d. Bib.-Aramdischen, pp. 12 and 174; see also Field’s Otium Norvic., iii., pp. 110 f.); or whether the pf. should be rendered proleptically—‘Our Lord cometh,” “will come,” “is at hand,” after the manner of Phil. iv. 5, 1 Thess. iv. 14 ff., James v. 7 ff., Rev. i. 7, iii. 11, xxii. 2ο. The latter sense accords with the context, with the strain of ch. xv., and with the N.T. attitude. towards our Lord’s return: see i. 7, xi. 26, 1 Thess. i.