24---27. 1]. 1.
, A καρδίαν ἑαυτοῦ] τούτου 2 μάταιος ἡ "θρησκεία.ὃ
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27. θρησκεία 4a Acts xxvi.
a = / δὴν καθαρὰ καὶ ἀμίαντος παρὰ τῷ ὅ ἢ Θεῷ καὶ ὃ πατρὶ ἴ αὕτη ἐστίν, °ém-b iii. ο;
σκέπτεσθαι “ ὀρφανοὺς καὶ χήρας ὁ ἐν τῇ θλίψει αὐτῶν, " ἄσπιλον
ἑαυτὸν ὃ τηρεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ κόσμου.
II. 1. “AAEAGOI μου, μὴ ἐν " προσωπολημψίαις 10 ἔχετε τὴν ὃ πί-
xxxi. 17-18; Isa. i. 17; Sir. iv. 10; 2 Macc. iii. το, viii. 28, 30.
v. 22; 1 John v. 18; Rom. xii. 2. i. 17; Jude 16. b Mark xi, 22.
Eph. v. 20; 1 Cor. XV. 24; Col. ii. 2. ος vil. 35; Matt. XXV. 36. d—d Job
ε Cf..2 Pet. 1. τὰ. ξι Tim
a Deut. i. 17, x. 17; Prov. xxiv. 23; 2 Cor. v. 16; 1 Pet
Ίαντου SACKL, Oec., Ti., Treg., WH (altern. reading).
ὅτου NL 3 θρησκια $Y Ti.
*OpnoKia NY Ti., add yap A, 70, 83, 123, Pesh., add δε Syrhk, latt., Copt.; add
autem 77.
°Om. τω ΔΝ Ο2ΚΤ,, curss., 40, 73, 99, Ti.
5 Om. και gg, 126, a, ff, Pesh., Aeth. 8 geavrov A, Aeth. δεκ ΟΡ.
reality in religion is so frequently insisted upon by the early Rabbis shows that their teaching in thistespect was the same as that of this writer.—@ p nods: Hatch, as quoted by Mayor, describes θρησκεία as “religion in its external aspect, as worship or as one mode of worship contrasted with another”; this agrees exactly with what has just been said. θρησκός does not occur elsewhere in the N.T. nor in the Septuagint. — χαλιναγωγῶν: (B reads χαλινων). Not found elsewhere in the N.T. or in the Septuagint; χαλινός is used in Ps. xxxi, (Heb, xxxii.) 9 in the Septuagint, as well as in the versions of Aquila and Quinta; for the thought cf. Ps. xxxviii. (Heb. xxxix.) 2, οχΙ. (Heb. cxli.) 3, though the word is not used in either of these last two passages. Mayor quotes the in- teresting passage from Hermas, Mand., xii, I. ἐνδεδυμένος τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τὴν ἀγαθὴν μισήσεις τὴν πονηρὰν ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ χαλιναγωγήσεις αὐτήν.-- γλῶσσαν ἑαυτοῦ ; the reference is to the three- fold misuse of the tongue, slander, swear- ing and impure speaking ; see Eph. v. 3-6.
Ver. 27. θρησκεία καθαρὰ ... αὕτη ἐστίν .. .: As illustrating this, Dr. Taylor (Expos. Times, xvi. 334) quotes the Ποίμανδρος of Hermes Trismegistos : καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν ὁ θεός, τὸ wav... τοῦτον τὸν λόγον, ὦ τέκνον, προσκύνει καὶ θρήσκευε. θρησκεία δὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ μία ἐστί, μὴ εἶναι κακόν. Cf. too, the fol- lowing from the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Jos. iv. 6: “The Lord willeth not that those who reverence Him should be in uncleanness, nor doth He take plea- sure in them that commit adultery, but in those that approach Him with a pure
7Pr. τω A; om. ff. 10.ληψιαις KLP, curss.
heart and undefiled Πρς”.,- ἐπισκέπ- τεσθαι ὀρφανοὺς Kai... αὐτῶν : this was reckoned among the
Opn MDDS “practice of kind-
nesses,’ which are constantly urged in Rabbinical writings, e.g., Nedarim, 396, 40a; Ket., 50a; Sanh., τοῦ. Cf. too, Sir. iv. το, γίνου ὀρφανοῖς ὡς πατήρ, καὶ ἀντὶ ἀνδρὸς τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῶν. In the Αβοο. of Peter, § 15, occur these words: οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν οἱ πλουτοῦντες Kal τῷ πλούτῳ αὐτῶν πεποιθότες καὶ μὴ ἐλε- σαντες ὀρφανοὺς καὶ χήρας, ἀλλ᾽ ἀμε- λήσαντες τῆς ἐντολῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ. Cf. also the Afoc. of Paul, § 35.
CuapTeER II.—Vv. 1-13 take up again the subject of the rich and poor which was commenced in 1. 9-11.
Ver. I. μὴ . . -.ἔχετε: the impera- tive, which is also found in all the ver- sions, seems more natural and more in accordance with the style of the Epistle than the interrogative form adopted by | WH.—év προσωπολημψίαις: the plural form is due to Semitic usage, like ἐξ αἱμάτων in John i. 13; cf. Rom. ii, τὰ; Eph. vi. 9; Col. iii. 25.- τὴν πίστιν τοῦ Κυρίου . . .: the men- tion of the “faith of Christ” is brought in in a way which shows that this was a matter with which the readers were well acquainted. The phrase must evidently mean the new religion which Christ gave to the world, 2.ε., the Christian faith t 7s δόξης: the intensely Jew- ish character of this Epistle makes it reasonably certain that the familiar Jew- ish conception of the Shekinah is what the writer is here referring to. The She-