A friend of my own, with a knowledge of animals, tells me that the pig is often washed in certain forms of dishealth, to open the pores of the skin. The animal, being unprotected by hair, finds the sun’s heat disagreeable, and wallows again in the mud for coolness. The dried mud protects the skin from the rays. βόρβορος found only here and in
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u Luke xx. 25, JaS.iv. : 1 Cor. vii. µένη εἰς κυλισμὸν βορβόρου.
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III. 1. Ταύτην ἤδη, ἀγαπητοί, δευτέραν ὑμῖν γράφω ἐπιστολήν,
xxvii.5. ἐν ais διεγείρω ὑμῶν ἐν ὑπομνήσει τὴν εἰλικρινῆ διάνοιαν, 2.
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~ ~ lol ~ n , A καὶ τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων ὑμῶν ἐντολῆς τοῦ κυρίου καὶ σωτῆρος, 3.
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ton, Pro- leg. pp. 205-201. ος ον, b Col. iii. 16, 2 Cor. vii. 5, ix. 10, Phil. i. 29.
Jer. xxxviii. 6. Cf. Acta Thomae, 53. εἶδον βόρβορον . . . καὶ ψυχὰς ἐκεῖ κυλιοµένας. In the Legends of Pela- gia, which, though late, are written in good vernacular Greek, both noun and corresponding verb are found. «ἐλθοῦσα περιστερὰ µελάνη καὶ βεβορβορωμένη περιεπέτατό µοι, καὶ τὴν δυσωδίαν τοῦ βορβόρου αὐτῆς οὐκ ἠδυνάμην Φέρειν. (Die Pelag. Legend., ed. Usener, p. 21). Bishop Wordsworth suggested that the double proverb is an inexact quotation of two iambic lines—
εἰς ἴδιον ἐξέραμ’ ἐπιστρέψας κύων λελουμένη 6 ts εἰς κύλισμα βορβόρου
If he is right, 2 Pet. cannot be charged with the use of the two rare words, βορβόρου and ἐξέραμα. Bigg suggests (ed., p. 228) that the Proverbs of Solomon had been unified by some Jewish paraphiast, and this one of the pig added to the canonical collection.
ΟΗαρτεκ III.—Vv. 1-4. Prophets and apostles have warned us that de- lay will lead to denial of the Second Advent.
“Tam now writing my second letter to you. In both I seek to rouse you to honest reflection on the words formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and on the commandment of our Lord delivered by your missionaries. Especially realise the truth of their warning, that there will come in the last days scoffers, with scoffing questions, walking after their own lusts, and saying, ‘ Where is the pro- mise of His appearing? For,’ say they, ‘from the time the fathers fell asleep, everything remains as it has been from the beginning of creation ’.”
Ver. 1. For ἤδη with numeral, cf. John xxi. 14. δευτέραν ἐπιστολήν. Does this refer to 1 Peter? See Introduction,
p. 113. ἐν ats: ‘in both of which,” constructio ad sensum. διεγείρω... ὑπομνήσει: cf. i. 13.
εἰλικρινῆ: cf. x Cor. v. 8, 2 Cor. i. 12, ii. 17, Phil. i. το. εἰλικρινῆ διάνοιαν is a technical philosophic term used by Plato. Phaed. 66 A =‘‘pure reason,’”’ such as the geometer employs. In Phaed. 81 C, εἰλικρινῆς ψυχή is opposed to ψ. µεμιασ- µένη καὶ ἀκάθαρτος. 2 Peter here cannot be acquitted of a confusion in the use of philosophic terms, probably picked up loosely in conversation. At the same time, διάνοια is also used in the philo- sophic sense of ψυχή in Gen. xvii. 17, Deut. vi. 5, Num. xv. 39; also in N.T. Coloss. i. 21, 1 Pet. 1. 13. εἰλικρινής is of doubtful etymology, and signifies ethi- cal purity, a mind uncontaminated and unwarped by sensual passion. The oppo- site state is described in Plato, Phaed. 81, “She thinks nothing true, but what is bodily, and can be touched and seen, and eaten and drunk, and used for men’s lusts ”’.
Ver. 2. Borrowed from Jude 17. µνησθῆναι: epexegetical infinitive. See grammatical note. καὶ τῆς τῶν ἄποσ- τόλων, κ.τ.λ. Double possessive geni- tive ‘‘ of the Lord’s command delivered by your apostles ’’. Chase (of. cit. p. 811 a) suggests that διά should be inserted after τῆς, and compares the title of the Didache, διδαχἠ κυρίου διὰ τῶν δώδεκα ἀποσ- τόλων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. évTokn=teaching of our Lord on the fulfilment of the moral law, cf. ii. 21, John xii. 50. ἀποστόλων : Are the Twelve meant? cf. Introd. pp. 103- 4. Probably ἀπ. signifies just those from whom they received the first knowledge of the gospel, accredited missionaries of the Church. The word is used of Epaphro- ditus, Phil. ii. 25, and of other than apostles, 2 Cor. viii. 23.