(Oant. v. 4; Isa. xvi. 11). Thie litomliem in Prov. vi. 12 "a naughty person" is adam is o.lwn.ye out of pince, and especially in belial. " A. son of Belia!" means " o. child Philem. 7, 12, 20. of wickedness" by a. common Hebraism Ver. 13.-Now, tor a reoompense ln the (Deut. xiii. 13; Judg. xix. 22). And hence, ae.me. He begs them to give him "o. rewo.rd since Belie.l only bece.rue a proper name iu in kind; " in other words, he wishes them to later clays- Le e.s fro.nk with him as he ho.a been to them. As unto my ohildren. And therefore, " To him no temples rose, as o. spirituo.l father, I may surely ask for No altars smoked." sympathy. St. Pou! uses the au.me metaphor Perhaps, e.s lias been conjectured, this clause, in l Cor. iv. 14; 1 These. ii. 11. lie ye also which contains two such unusual words, enlarged. Treat me as I he.ve treated yon may be a quotation. It is, h"wever, no (oomp. "Be as I nm," 9e.l. iv. 12). ground of objection that Belia! does not Ver. 14,-Be ye not uneque.lly yoked to- occur elsewhere in St. Paul, for until the gether with nnbelievera. Ewald, followed by pastoral Epistles he only uses dial>olos Dean Stanley, Holsten, and otliers, thinks twice (Eph. iv. 27; vi. 11 ). What pa.rt, etc. ? that here there is a sudden disloce.tion of the This ia not, like the other clauses, an illustra- argument, and some have even supposed tion, but the statement of the fact itself which that the section, oh. vi 14-vii. 1, is either •• has come in a.midst the lively, sweeping an e.fter-thought written by the apostle on flow of the discourse." With an infidel ; the margin of the Epistle after it was fin- i.e. with an unconverted Gentile. ished; or even an interpole.tion. Tho latter Ver. 16.-Wha.t agreement. The word view has a.risen from tho unusual expres- means " unity of composition." This ia the sions of the section, e.nd the use of the word fifth synonym which St. Paul has used in "Belie.I," .and the command of Greek shown this clause-1LEroxli, ,coivc.,v(a, rrvµ,pC:,1171,ns, bJ the varied expressions. There is no µepls, rrv-y,carcl.8,rrtS. The verb rrv-y,carcl.871µ,, e.deqne.te ground for these conjectures. occurs in Luke xxiii. 51. St. Paul in this Every writer ia conscious of moods in whioh che.pter shows an a.lmost unwanted command words come to him more fluently than e.t over the Greek language. With idols (Me.tt. other times, and e.ll writers of deep feeling, vi. 24; 1 John v. 21). Ye. "We" is the like S't. Paul, abound in sudden transitions reading of N, B, D, L. Ewa.Id, without which correspond to the lightning-like sufficient ground, makes it one of his a.r. rapidity of their thoughts. It is doubtful guments for regarding this section as inter- whether the ree.ders would not have seen e.t polated (comp. eh. v. 21). Are the temple once the sequence of thought, which depends of the living God. The indwelling of the on circumstances which we can only con- Holy Spirit in every Christian heart, which jecture. Probably the alienation from St. is the distinguishing result of the new Pe.ul had its root in some tampering with covene.nt, was very prominent in the thoughts unbelievers. Such might at any rate hove of St. Paul (1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19; Eph. ii. been the case among tlie Qenlile members 21, 22; 1 Tim. iii. 15; comp. 1 Pet. ii. 5; of the Church, some of whom were even Heb. iii. 6). As God hath said. The quo- willing to go to se.crificie.l feasts in heathen tation is altered slightly from the LXX. of temples (1 .Oor. viii.-x.). "Unequally Lev. xxvi. 12. But in this and the n~xt yoked" is a metaphor derived from Lev. xix. verses we have II a mosnic of citations" from 19 and Deut. xxii. 10, and is the opposite thi~ pa.ssnge and Exo,l. xxix. 45 ; Iso. Iii. of "true yoke1ellow" (Phil. iv. 8). What 11 : Ezek. x.x. 8-1 : 2 So.m. vii. H ; comp. fellowship ; literally, participatio11 (Eph. v. Jer. xxxi. 9: Isa.. xliii. 6. This mode of 6-11). Unrighteousness; litere.lly, law- compres8i.ng tho essence of v11J:ious quo- lessness (1 John iii. 4). It was a special tations into one passage we.s common a.mong me.rk of heathen life (Rom. vii. 19). Light the ru.bbis. In them. In the original with darkness. This antithesis is specially Hebrew this menns "among them" (Exod. prominent in Eph. v. 9-11 and Col. i. 12, rn, xxi.x. 45; Lev. xxvi. 12), since the inclwell- u.nd in the writings of ~t. Jolin (John i. 5; ing of Gou by his Holy Spirit belongs only ill. 19; 1 John, passim). to the new covene.nt. Ver. 15.-Conoi,rd; liternlJy, harmony or Ver. 17.-l!'rom among them; i.e. from accord. The word does not occur elsewhere among the unbelievers. Touch not the un- in the New Testament or in the LXX. olean thing (Lev. xi. 8, eto. ; Isa. Iii. 11). The e.djeotive aumphonos occurs in 1 Cor. I will receive you (oomp. Ezek. xx. 3-1); vii. 5. Christ with Belie.I (see 1 Cor. x. 21), These promises to Israel e.re naturally trans- Belia!. Here used in the form Beliar, as a forred to the ideo.l Israel, the Cruistian proper name, because no Greek word ends Cllurch. in tile Jetter r. In the Old 'l'estnment it Ver. 18.-And will be a lather unto you, docs not stand for a person, but means These reminiscences are sufficiently neflr lo •• wickednuss" or "wor1.hlcHsne.•s." T4us 2 Sam. vii. 8-14; Isa. xliii. 6; J·ir. 3-,;xi. 9, 148 'l'HE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. [oR. vt.1-18,
to render needle~e the lltlppoeition that they (LXX.). The epithet indlontee the certRln come from any apocryphal book (Ewald) or fulfilment of the promieee. Panto1,rator, l'or Jewi~h hymn (GrotiUB), Saith the Lord "Almighty," ie uecd in the LXX. for" Lord Almighty. The phmse, not elsewhere used of snbaoth," and in tha New Tcstnmen& by Sl Paul, ie ta.ken from 2 Sam. vii. 8 only occurs elsewhere in the ApooalYl>se,