Which receive (AauPBdvortes). Lit., receiving (as ye do): seeing that ye receive.
Seek not the honor that cometh from God only («ai ry dofav THY mapa Tov pdvov Oeod ov Enreire). The Rev. gives it capitally, following the Greek order: and the glory that cometh Jrom the only God ye seek not. Not God only, which entirely overlooks the force of the definite article; but the only God. Compare 1 Tim. vi. 15, 16; John xvii. 3; Rom. xvi. 27.
45. | will accuse (karnyopyow). From xatd, against, and aryopevo, to speak in the assembly (ayopa). Hence, properly, to bring an accusation in court. John uses no other verb for accuse, and this only here, viii. 6, and Apoe. xii. 10. Once in the New Testament dsa8ardrw occurs (Luke xvi. 1, on which see note), signifying malicious accusation, and secret, as distin- guished from public, accusation (ckatnyopia). Airtdopas occurs once in the compound mpontiacdpeda, we before lard to the charge (Rom. iii. 9). This has reference especially to the ground of accusation (airia). °Eyxadé occurs only in Acts, with the exception of Rom. viii. 33. It means to accuse publicly, but not necessarily before a tribunal. See Acts xxiii. 28, 29; KXVis cote
In whom ye trust (es dv dpets HAmikare). A strong expres- sion. Lit., into whom ye have hoped. Rev., admirably, on whom ye have set your hope.
47. Writings (ypdupacow). It is important to understand the precise sense of this word, because it goes to determine whether Jesus intended an antithesis between Moses’ writings and His own words, or simply between Moses (éxeivov) and Himself (€ois).
Tpdépya primarily means what is written. Hence it may de- scribe either a single character or a document. From this general notion several forms develop themselves in the New Testament. The word occurs in its narrower sense of charac- ters, at Luke xxiii. 38; 2 Cor. iii. 7; Gal. vi. 11. In Acts XXViiil. 21, it means oficial communications. Paul, with a sin-