‘Sol. xvii. 33) for salvation being realised.
Those who are sanctified and who truly believe shall be saved. Cf. ver. 14 and Apoc. Bar., liv. 21: “in fine enim saeculi uindicta erit de iis qui improbe egerunt, iuxta improbitatem eorum, et glorificabis fideles iuxta fidem εοτύτῃ ”.-- πνεύματος may be either (a2) = ‘“‘ wrought by the (holy) Spirit” (6f. τ Peter i. 2), the divine side of the human πίστει, or (δὴ = “ οἵ the spirit’ (cf. I. v.-23; 2 Cor. vii. 1), as of the heart (1., iii. 13). The absence of the article is not decisive against the former rendering, but the latter is the more probable in view of the context;
the process of ἁγιασμός involves a love of the truth and a belief in it (¢.e., in the true gospel) which is opposed to religious delusions cf. ii. 2).
Ver. τη. Το τι saved ultimately (12) is to possess or rather to share the glory of Christ (c7- ὃς a1. το).
Ver. 15. The divine purpose does not work automatically, but implies the co- operation of Christians—in this case, a resolute stedfastness resting on loyalty to the apostolic gospel. In view of pass- ages like 1 Cor. xi. 23, xv. 5, it is gratui- tous to read any second-century passion for oral apostolic tradition into these words or into those of 111. 6.
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“19 A - Ν ε Ν ο. . “ ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ἃ παραγγέλλομεν ποιεῖτε ἢ καὶ ποιήσετε. 5. ὁ δὲ Thre?’ 139,43 Test. Gad, vi. 1. al.iv.1; Eph. vi. το. 1. v. 25. 5 1.1.8: d Ps. exlvii. 15, etc. (LXX), contrast 2 Tim. 11.9. eInsense of Acts xiii. 48. ΕἾ. 1.4. g Cf. Rom. xv. 31; 2 Ti. iv. 17; Ps, Sol. iv. 27. h See on Acts xxviii. 6; Isa. xxv. 4 (LXX); and on I. lii. 3, “misguided and
unprincipled’’ Rutherford). x. 16 with Acts xvii. 12, 34. 11. 5. p Cf. I. iv. το.
Ver. 16. αὐτὸς δὲ, perhaps with a slight implicit apposition to the you or we of the previous sentence.—ayamyoas καὶ δοὺς, κ.τ.λ., Connection as in John iii. τ6. --- παράκλησιν for this world, ἐλπίδα for the world to come; all hope is encouragement, but not vice-versa.
Ver. 17, in contrast to the disquiet and confusion of ii. 2. ἔργῳ as ini. 11, iii. 4, 7 £., λόγῳ as iii. 1,15; L,i.8. See the fulsome pagan inscription of Halicar- nassus, which after giving thanks for the birth of Augustus, σωτῆρα τοῦ κοινοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένους, declares that men now are tull of ἐλπίδων μὲν χρηστῶν πρὸς TO μέλλον, εὐθυμίας δὲ εἰς τὸ παρόν. Contrast also the κενὴ ἐλπίς of the im- pious in Sap. ili. 11.
ΟΠΑΡΤΕΕ III.—Ver. 1. In addition to offering prayers on their behalf, Paul asks them to pray for the continued success of the gospel (‘‘may others be as blest as we are’’!) and (νετ. 2), for its agents’ safety (Isa. xxv. 4, LXX, a reminiscence of). The opponents here are evidently (1. το f.) beyond hope of conversion ; preservation from their wiles is all that can be expected. For a speedy answer to this prayer, see Acts xvill. 9 f. The repeated use of ὁ Κύριος in vv. 1-5, brings out the control of God amid the plots and passions of πηδηκιπά. --- ἀτόπων. The general sense of the term is given by Philo in his queer allegorising of Gen. iil. 9 (Leg. Alleg., 111. 17, ἄτοπος λέγεται εἶναι 6 φαῦλος) ; commonly it is used, as elsewhere in the N.T., of things, but here of persons, either as = ‘‘ill-disposed,” or, in a less general and derivative sense = ‘*perverse” (cf. Nageli, der Wortschatz