[[2]] Jas. i. 17.

[[3]] The word is the same as St. Paul has just used to describe the eager 'pursuit' of opportunities of hospitality by the Christian. He 'pursues' opportunities of doing good, while he is himself 'pursued' by enemies to do him evil.

[[4]] Cf. xi. 25, and Prov. iii. 7.

[[5]] Prov. iii. 4 LXX. 'Provide things honourable in the sight of the Lord and of man.'

[[6]] Deut. xxxii. 35.

[[7]] Prov. xxv. 21.

[[8]] The truth, however, which underlies the metaphor of the body is, we may say, equally present in all the New Testament writers.

[[9]] See, however, p. [196].

[[10]] 1 Cor. vii. 7.

[[11]] Dr. Liddon, with many others, interprets 'according to the proportion of the faith,' i.e. according to 'the majestic proportion of the (objective) faith.' This is the characteristically Latin, as against the Greek, interpretation, and the Greek is certainly to be preferred, because 'according to the proportion of our faith' follows naturally upon 'according as ... the measure of faith' just above; indeed 'faith' in this context can hardly have assigned to it without violence the objective meaning which, however, in the context of the Pastoral Epistles it no doubt frequently bears. Cf. app. note A, p. [205].