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Comp. James 1:6. perif .] This word (in the passive) occurs in the New Testament here only. In Heb. 13:9, as also in Jude 12, it is a false reading. But the former passage ( didacai'" poikivlai" k. xevnai" mh; parafevresqe ) is to be compared, as describing the same dangers under a slightly different image,—that of being ‘carried away from the straight course’ (see note ad loc. ). [Here the Ephesians are warned against being carried about hither and thither by various winds of erroneous doctrine, which are thus characterised in contrast with the unity of Christian teaching.]
th'" didask .] The teaching of such as lead astray.
ejn th'/ kub ....] Latt. in nequitia ( fallacia, illusione ) hominum, in astutia ad
circumventionem
( remedium, machinationem ) erroris: encompassed, as it were, by the fraud (or the gambling spirit) of religious adventurers, who turn them by their selfish ability after the scheming of error.
kubeiva/ ] The word kubeiva occurs in the literal sense of ‘dice-playing’ in Pl. Phaedr. 274 D; X EN . M EM . 1.3, 2 & C . I T IS USED METAPHORICALLY IN A RR . E PICT . 2.19;
3.21. T
HE WORD WAS TRANSLITERATED IN R ABBINIC . [S EE A DD . N OTE .]

PANOURGIVA ] L UKE 20:23; 1 C OR . 3:19; 2 C OR . 4:2; 11:3. (2 C OR . 12:16

PANOURGO " .)

F OR PRO ;" T . M . SEE G AL . 2:14; L K . 12:47; AND FOR MEQODIVA E PH . 6:11.
15.
AJLHQEUVONTE " ...] L ATT . VERITATEM FACIENTES , LIVING THE TRUTH IN LOVE , NOT SIMPLY SPEAKING THE TRUTH . T HE APPROPRIATION OF THE TRUTH IS NOT INTELLECTUAL ONLY BUT MORAL , EXPRESSED THROUGH OUR WHOLE BEING , IN CHARACTER AND ACTION .

AUJXHVS . EIJ " AUJ .] L ATT . CRESCAMUS IN ILLO : MAY REALISE OUR FELLOWSHIP WITH H IM MORE CLOSELY AS OUR GROWTH ADVANCES AND BE CONFORMED TO H IM MORE PERFECTLY .

16. EJX OU ...] FROM W HOM , AS THE SOURCE OF ALL VITAL ENERGY , ALL THE BODY ... MAKETH FOR ITSELF THE GROWTH OF THE BODY UNTO THE BUILDING UP OF ITSELF IN LOVE . W HILE C HRIST IS THE ONE SOURCE OF LIFE , THE GRADUAL FORMATION OF H IS BODY , THE C HURCH , IS STILL DESCRIBED UNDER THE TWO COMPLEMENTARY FIGURES OF A GROWTH AND A BUILDING UP .’ A UXHSI " OBVIOUSLY REFERS TO AUJXHVSWMEN IN E PH . 4:15. T HE INCREASE OF THE C HURCH DEPENDS IN PART ON THE DUE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS MEMBERS , AND IN PART ON THEIR HARMONIOUS COMBINATION .

T HE PROCESS OF INCREASE IS CONTINUOUS ( SUNARMOLOGOUVMENON PRES . AS E PH . 2:21 F .), AND IT INVOLVES THE PUTTING TOGETHER OF PARTS ( SUNARM . E PH . 2:21), AND THE COMBINATION OF PERSONS ( SUMBIB . C OL . 2:19).

DIA P . A J. ] L ATT . PER OMNEM JUNCTURAM SUBMINISTRATIONIS , THROUGH EVERY CONTACT . W HEREVER ONE PART COMES INTO CLOSE CONNEXION WITH ANOTHER , IT COMMUNICATES THAT WHICH IT HAS TO GIVE . F OR THE SENSE OF AFHV SEE L IGHTFOOT ON C OL . 2:19.

T HE CONSTRUCTION OF TH '" EJPICORHGIVA " IS UNCERTAIN . T HE ONLY CONNEXION WHICH GIVES A SATISFACTORY MEANING APPEARS TO BE TH '" EJPIC . KATJ EJNEVRG . T HE UNUSUAL ORDER IS INTELLIGIBLE FROM THE EMPHASIS ON TH '" EJPIC . ( COMP . E PH . 3:17 NOTE ). T HE SENSE WILL THEN BE : ‘ ACCORDING TO THE EFFECTUAL WORKING OF THE SERVICE RENDERED IN DUE MEASURE BY EVERY PART .’ I F EJN MEVTRW CANNOT BE USED ABSOLUTELY , THEN EJN MEVTRW E J. E J. M . GIVES THE SAME MEANING .

T HE RENDERING THROUGH EVERY CONTACT WITH THE SUPPLY GIVES NO CLEAR SENSE . T HE SUPPLY IS NOT A DEFINITE CURRENT OF FORCE , BUT VARIES WITH EVERY PART . I N ANY CASE THE SENSE IS CLEAR . E ACH PART AS IT IS BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH OTHER PARTS , FULFILS ITS OWN OFFICE AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE GROWTH OF THE


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