Resultados para: "COMPLICITY"

<p>make . . . cakes to worship her--MAURER translates, &quot;to form her image.&quot; Crescent-shaped cakes were offered to the moon. Vulgate supports English Version.

without our men--The women mentioned (Jer 44:15); &quot;a great multitude&quot; here speak: we have not engaged in secret night orgies which might justly be regarded unfavorably by our husbands: our sacred rites have been open, and with their privity. They wish to show how unreasonable it is that Jeremiah should oppose himself alone to the act of all, not merely women, but men also. The guilty, like these women, desire to shield themselves under the complicity of others. Instead of helping one another towards heaven, husband and wife often ripen one another for hell.</p>

<p>Gilead . . . city--probably Ramoth-gilead, metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, south of the Jabbok, known as &quot;Gilead&quot; (Kg1 4:13; compare Gen 31:21-25).

work iniquity-- (Hos 12:11).

polluted with blood--&quot;marked with blood-traces&quot; [MAURER]. Referring to Gilead&#039;s complicity in the regicidal conspiracy of Pekah against Pekahiah (Kg2 15:25). See on Hos 6:1. Many homicides were there, for there were beyond Jordan more cities of refuge, in proportion to the extent of territory, than on this side of Jordan (Num 35:14; Deu 4:41-43; Jos 20:8). Ramoth-gilead was one.</p>

<p>That they may do evil with both hands earnestly--literally, &quot;Their hands are for evil that they may do it well&quot; (that is, cleverly and successfully).

the great man, he--emphatic repetition. As for the great man, he no sooner has expressed his bad desire (literally, the &quot;mischief or lust of his soul), than the venal judges are ready to wrest the decision of the case according to his wish.

so they wrap it up--The Hebrew is used of intertwining cords together. The &quot;threefold cord is not quickly broken&quot; (Ecc 4:12); here the &quot;prince,&quot; the &quot;judge,&quot; and the &quot;great man&quot; are the three in guilty complicity. &quot;They wrap it up,&quot; namely, they conspire to carry out the great man&#039;s desire at the sacrifice of justice.</p>

<p>Your glorying in your own attainments and those of your favorite teachers (Co1 3:21; Co1 4:19; Co1 5:2), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is quite unseemly.

a little leaven leaveth . . . whole lump-- (Gal 5:9), namely, with present complicity in the guilt, and the danger of future contagion (Co1 15:33; Ti2 2:17).</p>

<p>Confirmation of Co2 7:10 from the Corinthians&#039; own experience.

carefulness--solicitude, literally, &quot;diligence&quot;; opposed to their past negligence in the matter.

in you--Greek &quot;for you.&quot;

yea--not only &quot;carefulness&quot; or diligence, but also &quot;clearing of yourselves,&quot; namely, to me by Titus: anxiety to show you disapproved of the deed.

indignation--against the offender.

fear--of the wrath of God, and of sinning any more [SCLATER and CALVIN]; fear of Paul [GROTIUS], (Co1 4:2, Co1 4:19-21).

vehement desire--longing for restoration to Paul&#039;s approval [CONYBEARE and HOWSON]. &quot;Fear&quot; is in spite of one&#039;s self. &quot;Longing desire&quot; is spontaneous, and implies strong love and an aspiration for correction [CALVIN]. &quot;Desire&quot; for the presence of Paul, as he had given them the hope of it (Co1 4:19; Co1 16:5) [GROTIUS and ESTIUS].

zeal--for right and for God&#039;s honor against what is wrong. Or, &quot;for the good of the soul of the offender&quot; [BENGEL].

revenge--Translate, &quot;Exacting of punishment&quot; (Co1 5:2-3). Their &quot;carefulness&quot; was exhibited in the six points just specified: &quot;clearing of themselves,&quot; and &quot;indignation&quot; in relation to themselves; &quot;fear&quot; and &quot;vehement desire&quot; in respect to the apostle; &quot;zeal&quot; and &quot;revenge&quot; in respect to the offender [BENGEL]; (compare Co2 7:7).

In all--the respects just stated.

clear--Greek, &quot;pure,&quot; namely, from complicity in the guilty deed. &quot;Approved yourselves,&quot; Greek, &quot;commended yourselves.&quot; Whatever suspicion of complicity rested on you (Co1 5:2, Co1 5:6) through your former remissness, you have cleared off by your present strenuousness in reprobating the deed.</p>

<p>At my first answer--that is, &quot;defense&quot; in court, at my first public examination. Timothy knew nothing of this, it is plain, till Paul now informs him. But during his former imprisonment at Rome, Timothy was with him (Phi 1:1, Phi 1:7). This must have been, therefore, a second imprisonment. He must have been set free before the persecution in A.D. 64, when the Christians were accused of causing the conflagration in Rome; for, had he been a prisoner then, he certainly would not have been spared. The tradition [EUSEBIUS, Ecclesiastical History, 2.251] that he was finally beheaded, accords with his not having been put to death in the persecution, A.D. 64, when burning to death was the mode by which the Christians were executed, but subsequently to it. His &quot;first&quot; trial in his second imprisonment seems to have been on the charge of complicity in the conflagration; his absence from Rome may have been the ground of his acquittal on that charge; his final condemnation was probably on the charge of introducing a new and unlawful religion into Rome.

stood with me--Greek, &quot;came forward with me&quot; [ALFORD] as a friend and advocate.

may it not be laid to their charge--The position of &quot;their,&quot; in the Greek, is emphatic. &quot;May it not be laid to THEIR charge,&quot; for they were intimidated; their drawing back from me was not from bad disposition so much as from fear; it is sure to be laid to the charge of those who intimidated them. Still Paul, like Stephen, would doubtless have offered the same prayer for his persecutors themselves (Act 7:60).</p>