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Easily provoked (παροξύνεται)
Easily is superfluous, and gives a wrong coloring to the statement, which is absolute: is not provoked or exasperated. The verb occurs only here and Act 17:16. The kindred noun παροξυσμός, in Act 15:39, describes the irritation which arose between Paul and Barnabas. In Heb 10:24, stimulating to good works. It is used of provoking God, Deu 9:8; Psa 105:29; Isa 65:3.
Thinketh no evil (οὐ λογίζεται τὸ κακόν)
Lit., reckoneth not the evil. Rev., taketh not account of. The evil; namely, that which is done to love. “Love, instead of entering evil as a debt in its account-book, voluntarily passes the sponge over what it endures” (Godet).