The Epistles of S. John: With Notes, Introduction And Appendices
The Epistles of S. John: With Notes, Introduction And Appendices
Alfred Plummer
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cxix. 165, 'Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them*; i.e. there is no stumbling-block before them. Where the LXX. is very similar to this passage, omitting the preposition * in*. 11. is in darkness and walketh in darkness"] The .darkness is his home and the scene of his activity. * The way of the wicked is as darkncbs : they know not at what they stumble ' (Prov. iv. 19). knoweth not whither he goeth] Literally, where he is going: the adverb (irou) is properly o...ne of rest, * where *, and not of motion^ * whither '. But in S. John this adverb is often joined with verbs of motion, and in particular with the verb used here [vvayeiv) : John iii. 8,* viii. 14, xii. 35, 36, xiv. 5, xvi. 5; vii. 35. Elsewhere in the N.T. the construction occurs only Heb. xi. 8. Perhaps both rest and motion are included; * knoweth not where he is and whither he is going*: i.e. neither knows his sin nor the direction in which his sin leads him. It .is perhaps a little too definite to explain with S.
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