ἤρεμος and ἠσύχιος, tvanquil and quiet (R.V.), perhaps refer to inward and outward peace respectively. See Bengel, on 1 Pet. iii. 4. ἡσυχία also has an external reference where it occurs in Nib. Αα 2) 5 Dhesss 11. το. 1 Tim. ii, 11, 12. ἠρεμέω is found in a papyrus of ii. Α.Ρ. cited by Moulton and Milligan, Expositor, vii., vil. 471.
διάγω is used in the sense of passing one’s life, absolutely, without βίον ex- pressed, in Tit. iii. 3.
ἐν πάσῃ εὐσεβείᾳ κ. σεμνότητι: with as much piety and earnestness Or seriousness as is possible. This clause, as Chrys. points out, qualifies the prayer for a tranquil and quiet life. εὐσέβεια and σεμνότης, piety and seriousness, belong to the vocabulary of the Pastoral Epistles, though evo. occurs elsewhere; see reff. In the Pastorals εὐσέβεια is almost a technical term for the Christian religion as expressed in daily life. It is used with a more general application, religious conduct, in τ Tim. vi. 11 and in 2 Peter. It and its cognates were “" familiar terms in the religious language of the Imperial period”? (Deissmann, Bible Studies, trans. p. 364). σεμνότης is rather σγανί- tas, as Vulg. renders it in Tit. ii. 7, than castitas (Vulg. here and 1 Tim. iii. 4) just as σεμνός is a wider term than pudi- cus as Vulg. always renders it (Phil. IVs Sox) Lime τα, 8, οσο Tit. Ἡ. ο). The
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