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69 [gh=n apotemno/menoj. There is no reference to the Old Testamet phrase in the original, which simply means "cutting off land for one's self," i. e., to appropriate it wrongfully.-R.]
71 prwto/tupoj, archetypal : the word seems to imply the symbolical use to be made of all visible things and their relations: as here, the relation of debtor and creditor is a sort of token of God's mercy, in binding Himself to do us good.
78 Exod. xxiii. 5; Deut. xxii. 4. [The citation is made very freely from the LXX. The former paasage was probably in the mind of the preacher.-R.]
2 [The text has also "Ye have heard that," as in Matt. v.22: the latter half is not a direct quotation.-R]
8 John xi. 42. ["These things" does not occur in the New Testament passage, but is inserted here to complete the sense. Comp. R. V., "but because of the multitude which standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me."R.]
14 The Gnostic and Manicha'n sects
25 Matt. v. 18. [R. V., "Till Heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished".-R.]
27 biou\ paraskeuh\n u\yhlote/ran.
29 [Matt. v. 20. The citation is accurate ; the phrase "the righteousness" is supplied in English ; see R. V.-R.]