Iwill (wé\Xw). ZL am about or have in mind. Not a declar- ation of immediate and inexorable doom, but implying a pos- sibility of the determination being changed.
Spue (€uécar). Only here in the New Testament. Com- pare Lev. xviii. 28; xx. 29.
17. Because thou sayest. Connect, as A. V. and Rev., with what follows, not with what precedes. Some interpret L will spue thee out of my mouth because thou sayest, ete.
Increased with goods (aemnovrnxa). Rev., have gotten riches. The reference is to imagined spiritual riches, not to worldly possessions.
Thou. Emphatic.
Wretched (0 tadadmrwpos). Rev., better, giving the force of the article, the wretched one. From thdw to endure, and Teipa a trial.
Miserable (€Aeecvds). Only here and 1 Cor. xv. 19. An ob- ject of pity (Eres).
Poor (wtwyos). See on Matt. v. 3.
18. I counsel (cvpBovdevw). With a certain irony. Though He might command, yet He advises those who are, in their own estimation, supplied with everything.
To buy. Compare Isa. lv.1; Matt. xiii. 44,46. Those who think themselves rich, and yet have just been called beggars by the Lord, are advised by Him to buy. The irony, however, covers a sincere and gracious invitation. The goods of Christ are freely given, yet they have their price—renunciation of self and of the world.
Gold (xypvclov). Often of gold money or ornaments. So1 Pet.i. 18; Acts iii. 6; 1 Pet. iii. 3. Also of natwe gold and gold which has been smelted and wrought (Heb. ix. 4). There