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5, 6] LOVE AND FAITH TO CHRIST AND THE SAINTS 1 79
on Select Readings." (Comp. Tit. iii. 15.) Mey., Win. (1. 2), Beet, render
' fidelity ' or ' faithfulness,' a sense which is found in N.T. though
rarely (see Rom. iii. 3;
i Tim. v. 12; Tit. ii. 10), and which is habitual in
LXX. (See Lightf. Comm. on Gal. p. 152, and Hatch, Essays in Bib. Gk.
p. 83 ff.). But (i) with-never occurs in this sense in N.T.
.
(See I Cor. xiii. 13; Gal. v. 6; i Thess. i. 3, v. 8; I Tim. i. 14, vi. 11
2 Tim. ii. 22.) This is not affected by the fact
,
that•here precedes
(See Eph. vi. 23.) Gal. v. 22 and i Tim. iv. 12 are not in point.
In those passages the words occur in enumerations; and in Gal. v. 22
-is entirely detached from ^. (2) in N.T. never
means ' to have fidelity.' The phrase occurs eleven times, and always
means ' to have faith.' A very common explanation is by the rhetorical
cAiasmus or cross-reference, by which•is referred to $ dyiovt,
and to .. But the examples of chiasmus commonly cited,
even from the class., illustrate mainly the mere arrangement of the words,
as where the adjective and the noun are in inverse order in two successive
clauses. (See Jelf, Gram. 904, 3; Farrar, on the rhetoric of St. Paul, Life
and Work, i. 626.) Besides, the i)v connects with the entire
clause rpos . . . . . dylovi. The position of indicates that it belongs
to both 77. and .
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Comp. the different arrangement in Col. i. 4.
: 09 nowhere else with as directed at
Christ. Of faith ' towards ' God, i Thess. i. 8. Comp.-
(2 Cor. iii. 4)• commonly with «s in
Paul. (See Rom. v. 8 ; 2 Cor. ii. 8 ; Col. i. 4 ; i Thess. iii. 12 ;
2 Thess. i. 3 ; but comp. 2 Cor. viii. 7 ; i Cor. xvi. 24.) The
use of different prepositions is not to be accounted for on the
ground of Paul's fondness for varying the prepositions without
designing to express a different relation (Mey.). Paul does,
indeed, often use different prepositions in one clause and with
reference to one subject in order to define the conception more
accurately (Rom. iii. 30, xi. 36 ; Gal. i. i, ii. 16 ; Col. i. 14) ; but
it is too much to say that no different relation is intended.
See Holtzn. Pastoralbr. p. loi; Winer, xlvii.; Deissmann, Die neutest,
Formel 'in Ckristo Jesu,' pp. 5, 6.
Bearing in mind that ^ . and ^ . are so closely
related in this passage (see above, and Oltr. ad loc), ir/ao? may be
taken in the sense indicated in the notes on Phil. ii. 30, iv. 6, as
expressing, not the mere direction of faith and love towards Christ
(Lightf., Ellic, Alf.), but the relation of loving and beheving
intercourse with him ; while th indicates the direct practical
bearing of faith and love on the Christian brethren.
in class, occurs frequently of all sorts of personal intercourse. (See
Horn. Od. xiv. 331, xix. 288; Thucyd. ii. 59, iv. 15, vii. 82; Hdt. i. 61.) It
occurs with, €vo^a,,and with!in the sense of ' ^'
a pledge
(Thucyd. iv. 51; Xen. Cyr. iii. i, 39).
6. ivepyrjs ycvj^rai *
: that the
communication of thy faith may become (or prove itself) effect-
ual.' The thought grows directly out of eis .
; '
. ., and?