Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Matthew 24:12

ἀνομίαν. Weiss and Holtzmann (H. C.) take this in the specific sense of antinomianism, a libertine type of Christianity preached by the false prophets or apostles, the word in that sense of course to be credited to the evangelist. The word as used by Christ would naturally bear the general sense of godlessness or iniquity. We may wonder at the use of such a word in connection with nascent Christianity. It would require a considerable time to make room for such degeneracy. But the very point Jesus wishes to impress is that there will be room for that before the final crisis of Israel comes. ψυγήσεται, etc., will cool the love of many. ψ. is an hapax leg. 2nd future passive of ψύχω, to breathe. One of the sad features of a degenerate time is that even the good loose their fervour. ἀγάπη, love of the brotherhood, here only in this sense in Synoptical Gospels, the distinctive virtue of the Christian, with a new name for a new thing.

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