The General Epistles of St Peter & St Jude : With Notes And Introduction
The General Epistles of St Peter & St Jude : With Notes And Introduction
E H Edward Hayes Plumptre
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The thought expressed is accordingly that our anxiety is to be swallowed up in our trust in the loving Providence of the Father. Here again we have a quotation somewhat altered from the LXX. version (Ps. Iv. 22), **Cast thy care upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee," and in the warning against anxiety we may find an echo of the precepts against "taking thought *' (where the Greek verb is formed from the same noun) in Matt. vi. 25 — 34. 8. Be soder, be vigilant] The two words are found in a l...ike juxta- position in I Thess. v. 6. The tense used here implies an immediate act, as though he said, "Rouse yourselves to sobriety and watchfulness," rather than a continuous state. The first word has the strict meaning of abstinence from that which inebriates. See note on chap. iv. 7. because your adversary the devil] The word for ** adversary" is the same as that used in Matt. v. 25, and carries with it the sense of a plaintiff or accuser in a trial before a judge. The Greek word for "devil* (Sid^oXos), uniformly used in the LXX.
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