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ministration of God’s gifts other than those of speech—primayily almsgiving, hospitality and the like—tva,x.7.A. A liturgical formula such as this is neces- sarily capable of many special meanings. --ἐνπᾶσιν may refer particularly to the gifts or their possessors—hardly to the Gentiles as Oec. suggests (Matt. v. 16)— but so to limit it would be a gratuitious in- justicetotheauthor. Thesaying ἐν τούτῳ ἐδοξάσθη 6 πατήρ pov ἵνα καρπὸν πολὺν φέρητε καὶ γεγήσεσθε ἐμοὶ µαθηταί is sufficient to justify this appendix to the exhortation love one another in deed --διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, through Yesus Christ through whom the spirit descended on each of you, Acts ii. 33, through whom you offer a sacrifice of praise (Heb. xiii. 15); cf. δοξαξέτω τὸν θεὸν ἐν ὀνόματι τούτῳ.--ᾧ ... The in- sertion of ἐστιν changes the doxology to a statement of fact and thus supports the interpretation of @ as referring of the immediate antecedent ¥esus Christ. Αἱ- ready He possesses the glory and the victory ; realising this His followers en- dure joyfully their present suffering and defeat.
Ver. 12. ἄγαπητοί marks the be- ginning of the third division of the Epistle in which Peter having cleared the ground faces at last the pressing problem.—Eevilea Oe, be surprised, as in νετ. 4.--τῇ ἐν ὑμῖν πυρώσει, the ordeal which is in your midst or rather in your hearts.—év ὑμῖν, cf. τὸ ἐν ὑμῖν ποίµνιον (ν. I) but the test is internal—in what frame of mind will they meet it? Will they regard it as a strange thing or as a share in Christ’s sufferings, part of the pattern 2---πυ ρ- ώσει. This conception of suffering as a trial not vindictive is stated in Jud. viii. 25, 27, ἐκείνους ἐπύρωσεν eis ἐτα- σμὸν καρδίας αὐτῶν; compare Zach. xiii. 19, πυρώσω αὐτοὺς ὡς πυροῦται ἀργύριον, Prov. xxvii. 21, χρυσῷ πύρωσις parallels but a man is tried . . . π. also occurs in the sense of blasting, Amos iv. 9; Apoc. xviii. 9, 18.
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