Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Timothy 6:7

The reasoning of this clause depends on the evident truth that since a man comes naked into this world (Job 1:21), and when he leaves it can “take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand” (Ecclesiastes 5:15; Psalms 49:17), nothing the world can give is any addition to the man himself. He is a complete man, though naked (Matthew 6:25; Luke 12:15; Seneca, Ep. Mor. Leviticus 25, “Non licet plus efferre quam intuleris”).

Field is right in supposing that if δῆλον, as read in the Received Text, is spurious, yet “there is an ellipsis of δῆλον, or that ὅτι is for δῆλον ὅτι. L. Bos adduces but one example of this ellipsis, 1 John 3:20 : ὅτι ἐὰν καταγινώσκῃ ἡμῶν ἡ καρδία, ὅτι μείζων ἐστὶν ὁ θεὸς τῆς καρδίας ἡμῶν; in which, if an ellipsis of δῆλον before the second ὅτι. were admissible, it would seem to offer an easy explanation of that difficult text.” Field adds two examples from St. Chrysostom. Hort's conjecture that “ ὅτι is no more than an accidental repetition of the last two letters of κόσμον, ΟΝ being read as ΟΤΙ ” is almost certainly right.

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