Ver. 3. The use of the rare ἁρκετός indicates the saying which St. Peter here
ἐθνῶν κατειργάσθαι - αις οἰνοφλυγίαις κώ 5 / ats ἐν ᾧ ξενίζονται τῆς ἀσωτίας ἀνάχυσι,
applies, sufficient unto the day [that is past] izs evil. Compare Ezek. xliv. 6, ἱκανούσθω ὑμῖν ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν ἀνομιῶν ὑμῶν. The detailed description of the evil follows the traditional redaction of the simple picture of absorption in the ordinary concerns of life which Jesus is content to repeat (Matt. xxiv. 37, etc.). Eating, drinking, marrying were inter- preted in the worst sense to account for the visitation and become gluttony, drunkenness and all conceivable perver- sions of marriage; see Sap. xiv. 21-27, followed by Rom. i. 29, εἴο.---τὸ πεπορευµένους, from 2 Kings xvii. δι ἐπορεύθησαν τοῖς δικαιώµασιν τῶν ἐθνῶν. The construction is broken (for the will... to have been accomplished . . . for you walking) unless κατ. be taken as if middle to πεπορ. as subject.— ἀσελγείαις, acts of licentiousness (as in Polybius) ; so Sap. xiv. 26. Earlier of wanton violence arising out of drunk- enness (Demosthenes).—otvo@gdv γί- aus, wine-bibbings, Deut. xxi. 20, οἶνοφ-
λνγεῖ = Ν1Ὁ. Noun occurs in Philo coupled with ἁπλήρωτοι ἐπίθυμίαι.--- κώμοις, revellings associated with alien rites, Sap. xiv. 26. For πότοις cf. ποτήριον δαιμόνων, 1 Cor. x. 14 ff.— ἀθεμίτοις εἰδωλολατρίαις, a Jew’s description of current Pagan cults, which were often illicit according to Roman law. For ἀ. ϱΓ. Actsx. 28, itis un- lawful for a Few to associate with a foreigner, and 2 Macc. vi. 5, vii. 1 (of swine flesh).
Ver. 4. ἐν ᾧ, whereat, i.e. (i.) at your change of life (2 f.) explained below by μὴ συντρεχ. « « «Οἱ (1.) on which ground, because you lived as they did.—teviLovrau, are surprised, as in ver. 12, where this use of ξ. (elsewhere in N.T. entertain, except Acts xvii. 20, ξενίζοντα) is explained by ὡς ξένου . «. συµβαίνοντος. Polybius has it in the same sense followed by dative, acc., διά with acc. and ἐπί with dative. So in Jose- phus Adam was surprised (ξενιζόμενον) that the animals had mates and he none, Ant, i, 1, 2) and the making of garments surprised God (ib. 4)---συντρεχόν- των, from Ps. |. 18, LXX, if thou sawest a thief, συνέτρεχες αὐτῷ, and with adul- terers thou didst set thy portion; where