Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Romans 12:9

ἡ ἀγάπη ἀνυπόκριτος : see 2 Corinthians 6:6; 1 Peter 1:22. Probably the following clauses ἀποστυγοῦντες … κολλώμενοι κ. τ. λ. are meant to explain this. Love is undissembled, it is the un-affected Christian grace, when it shrinks, as with a physical horror, from that which is evil (even in those whom it loves), and cleaves to that which is good. στυγεῖν according to Eustath. in Il. [31], p. 58 (quoted by Wetstein) adds the idea of φρίσσειν to that of μισεῖν : the ἀπο intensifies the idea of aversion or repulsion. Love is not a principle of mutual indulgence; in the Gospel it is a moral principle, and like Christ Who is the only perfect example of love, it has always something inexorable about it. He never condoned evil. τῷ ἀγαθῷ is neuter, like τὸ πονηρόν, though κολλᾶσθαι can be used of persons (1 Corinthians 6:16 f.) as well as things.

[31] A(ntiochena), in Blass, a fair rough copy of St. Luke.

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