63 Lit. "the worship of idols." The single word sometimes used to express "idolatry" (as in Eph. Syr., opp. tom. i.p. 116), is not found in these epistles
66 The word thus rendered is not in the lexicons, but is well illustrated by Isa. xxix. 21 ("that make a man an offender"), where the Hiphil of )+/x/
67 The word is used in the Peschito of 1 Tim. vi. 5, to express diaparatribai/ ("incessant quarrellings," Alf.); [R. V., "wranglings"-R.].
68 Ex. Conject. Beelen. The word is not in the lexicons.
70 Lit. "folly," but so used in 2 Cor. xii. 13.
78 Gen. vi. 3. [This is an example of the vicious method of interpretation, not yet extirpated, which carries Paul's distinctive use of the term "flesh" hack to the Pentateuch, where no ethical sense is necessarily implied.-R]
79 Rom. vii. 9. [The Apostle speaks of "the Spirit of Christ."-R. ]
89 The words which follow, "concerning those things which we speak," appear not to be genuine.-Beelen.
90 Beelen supposes a e#n dia\ duoi=n: "along the lonely road."
94 Lit. "profit and righteousness."
95 Lit. "go about and wander."
97 Lit, "in their barefacedness."
98 1 Cor. xii. 29. [But compare Jas. iii. 1: "Be not many many teach" (R.V.) which precedes the next citation.-R.]
106 Lit. "in his place." Col. iv. 6.
107 Lit. "his soul for life." Prov. xviii. 6, xiii. 3, xxi. 23.
112 As 1 Cor. xv. 44 (yuxiko/j).-See Jas. iii. 15 [also 1 Cor. ii. 13, 14.-R.]
117 An obscure clause, which Beelen supposes to be due to the misapprehension of the Syrian translator. Perhaps the difficulty will he met if we read "gifts," as do Wets. and Zing., by a change in the pointing.
120 Lit. "elegant and numerous words."
122 Matt xvii 21. [Or Mark ix. 29; the verse in Matthew is of doubtful genuineness.-R].]
126 Lit. "and things similar to these," Matt. xxv. 36.
129 Beelen here omits, as spurious, the words, "because this same thing is pleasant and agreeable to you: because ye are all taught of God."
131 Lit. "without shame," 2 Tim. ii 15.
139 [Comp. the term xriste/mporoj "Christ-monger," "Christ-trafficker," in Teaching, chap. xii. 5, vol. vii. p. 381.-R.]