λαὸν περιούσιον: populum accepiabilem (Vulg.). A people for his own possession (R.V.) is the modern equivalent of a pecu- liar people (A.V.). λαὸς περιούσιος is
the LXX for ΠΟ Oy. mad means “a valued property, α peculiar treasure”’ (feculinm), and occurs first in Exodus xix. 5, “Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me.” Here the LXX inserts λαός, possibly from the references in
Deut., in which the combination -πὸῷ ἈΦ
Ὀν is found. PID alone occurs in Malachi iii. 17 (εἰς περιποίησιν) and in Ps, Cxxxv. 4 (εἰς περιουσιασμόν). The LXX of Mal. ΠΠ, 17 is echoed in Eph. i. 14, εἰς ἀπολύτρωσιν τῆς περιποιήσεως, (where see Dean Armitage Robinson’s note) and τ Pet. ii. 9, λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν, in which Aads is a reminiscence of the
1 τῷ TL, τα, ΠΡΟΣ
“aeprovatoy, " ζηλωτὴν “ καλῶν “ἔργων. 15. ταῦτα λάλει καὶ πι Exod. i : XiX. 5, παρακάλει καὶ ἔλεγχε μετὰ πάσης " ἐπιταγῆς: µηδείς σου * περι- xxiii, 22, eut. vil, φρονείτω. 6, xiv. 2, ac , > ΜΗ ANTM Για» , = x XXV1. 18. III. τ. "Ὑπομίμνησκε αὐτοὺς " ἀρχαῖς ἐξουσίαις ὑποτάσσε- π Acts xxi. pe - A 20, XXii. 3 σθαι, “ πειθαρχεῖν, °Sapds " πᾶν °* ἔργον 35 ἀγαθὸν ‘ ἑτοίμους εἶναι, 7 Cor, xiv. δέ A ἢ 5 , > ho. A A er το πα te 2. μηδένα βλασφημεῖν, ἢ ἀμάχους εἶναι, ἢ ἐπιεικεῖς, πᾶσαν | ἐνδεικ- 14, 1 Pet.
νυμένους *
καὶ ἡμεῖς | ἀνόητοι, '' ἀπειθεῖς, " πλανώμενοι, ° δουλεύοντες " ἐπιθυ-
q 4 Macc. vi. 9, xiv. 1 only. Rom. xiii. 1, 2, 3. 1 Tim. ii. ro, 1 Tim. vi. ο.
p 2 Lim. iii. 6.
h See 1 Tim. iii. 3.
a See 2 Tim. ii. 14. d Acts v. 29, 32, xxvii. 21.
m 2 Tim. iii. 2, Tit. i. 16, etc.
111. 13. πραὔτητα πρὸς πάντας ἀνθρώπους. 3. Ἦμεν γάρ ποτεο δεξι Τίπι