Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Romans: Chapter 1]
"filled to the brim with" four vices in the associative
instrumental case (\adiki•i\, unrighteousness as in verse 18,
\pon•ri•i\, active wickedness as in Mr 7:22, \pleonexi•i\,
covetousness as in 1Th 2:5; Lu 12:15, \kaki•i\, maliciousness
or inward viciousness of disposition as in 1Co 5:8). Note
asyndeton, no connective in the lists in verses 29-31. Dramatic
effect. The order of these words varies in the MSS. and
\pornei•i\, fornication, is not genuine here (absent in Aleph A B
C). {Full of} (\mestous\). Paul changes from participle to
adjective. Old adjective, rare in the N.T., like \mesto•\, to
fill full (only in Ac 2:13 in N.T.), stuffed full of (with
genitive). Five substantives in the genitive (\phthonou\, envy,
as in Ga 5:21, \phonou\, murder, and so a paronomasia or
combination with \phthonou\, of like sounding words, \eridos\,
strife, as in 2Co 12:16, \kako•thias\, malignity, and here only
in N.T. though old word from \kako•th•s\ and that from \kakos\
and \•thos\, a tendency to put a bad construction on things,
depravity of heart and malicious disposition.)
1:30 Paul changes the construction again to twelve substantives
and adjectives that give vivid touches to this composite
photograph of the God abandoned soul. {Whisperers}
(\psithuristas\). Old word from \psithuriz•\, to speak into the
ear, to speak secretly, an onomatopoetic word like \psithurismos\
(2Co 12:20) and only here in N.T. {Backbiters} (\katalalous\).
Found nowhere else except in Hermas, compound like \katalale•\,
to talk back (Jas 4:11), and \katalalia\, talking back (2Co
12:20), talkers back whether secretly or openly. {Hateful to
God} (\theostugeis\). Old word from \theos\ and \stuge•\. All the
ancient examples take it in the passive sense and so probably
here. So \stug•tos\ (Tit 3:13). Vulgate has _deo odibiles_.
{Insolent} (\hubristas\). Old word for agent from \hubriz•\, to
give insult to, here alone in N.T. save 1Ti 1:13. {Haughty}
(\huper•phanous\). From \huper\ and \phainomai\, to appear above
others, arrogant in thought and conduct, "stuck up." {Boastful}
(\alazonas\). From \al•\, wandering. Empty pretenders,
swaggerers, braggarts. {Inventors of evil things} (\epheuretas
kak•n\). Inventors of new forms of vice as Nero was. Tacitus
(_Ann_. IV. ii) describes Sejanus as _facinorum omnium repertor_
and Virgil (_Aen_. ii. 163) _scelerum inventor_. {Disobedient to
parents} (\goneusin apeitheis\). Cf. 1Ti 1:9; 2Ti 3:2. An
ancient and a modern trait.
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