Galatians 5:21

φθόνοι without φόνοι אB. 17. φόνοι is added by Text. Rec. with ACD etc. syrr.

καθὼς προεῖπον. So א*BG. καὶ is inserted by W.H. margin with Text. Rec.

21. φθόνοι, “envyings.” See notes on Textual Criticism. The plural, 1 Peter 2:1[145]. Wetstein quotes Soph. Oed. Col. 1234 sq. φόνοι, στάσεις, ἔρις, μάχαι, καὶ φθόνος,

[145] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament.

μέθαι. The plural also in Romans 13:13; the singular in Luke 21:34[146].

[146] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament.

κῶμοι, Romans 13:13; 1 Peter 4:3[147]. “Carousals,” whether private, or, more probably, public revels connected with the worship of the gods, in particular of Bacchus. “Even the excellent Plutarch thought that it was absurd to be squeamish over wine, and that it was not only excusable, but a religious duty, to let tongues go; the gods required this compliment to their mythological characters” (Bigg on 1 Peter 4:3).

[147] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament.

καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τούτοις. Thus preventing his readers supposing that they might go beyond the list with safety.

ἃ, “with respect to which things.”

προλέγω ὑμῖν, 2 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:4[148], “I tell you before any commit them.”

[148] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament.

καθὼς προεῖπον. See notes on Textual Criticism. Such a warning belonged to the elementary instruction of converts (1 Thessalonians 4:1 sqq.; 1 Corinthians 6:9 sq.; Romans 6:17) and may have been given on the first or the second visit. Contrast Galatians 1:9.

ὅτι οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα πράσσοντες cf. 2 Corinthians 12:21.

βασιλείαν θεοῦ. On the absence of the article in the phrase βας. θ. κληρ. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:50) see Win.-Schm. § 19. 14. Perhaps in silent contrast to the kingdom of Caesar, as probably νόμος βασιλικός in James 2:8 to the same phrase used of imperial decrees: see Deissmann, Licht vom Osten, p. 265.

οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν, cf. Ephesians 5:5.