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As many servants as are under the yoke (ὅσοι εἰσὶν ὑπὸ ζυγὸν δοῦλοι)
Incorrect. Rather, as many as are under the yoke as bondservants. As bondservants is added in explanation of under the yoke, which implies a hard and disagreeable condition. Yoke is used only here of the state of slavery. In Gal 5:1; Act 15:10, of the Mosaic law. See on Mat 11:29.
Their own (τοὺς ἰδίους)
Lit. private, personal, peculiar, as 1Co 3:8; 1Co 7:7. Sometimes strange, eccentric. Contrasted with δημόσιος public or κοινός common. See Act 4:32. Sometimes without emphasis, substantially = possessive pronoun, just as Lat. proprius passes into suus or ejus, or οἰκεῖος belonging to one's house into the simple one's own. See on Gal 6:10, and comp. Mat 22:5; Mat 25:14. In lxx commonly with the emphatic sense. Very often in the phrase κατ' ἰδίαν privately, as Mar 4:34; Luk 9:10; Gal 2:2, but nowhere in Pastorals.
Masters (δεσπότας)
Comp. Tit 2:9, and see on 2Pe 2:1. Not in Paul, who styles the master of slaves κύριος Lord. See Eph 6:9; Col 4:1.
Count (ἡγείσθωσαν)
Implying a more conscious, a surer judgment, resting on more careful weighing of the facts. See Phi 2:3, Phi 2:6.
Be not blasphemed (μη - βλασφημῆται)
Or be evil spoken of. See on blasphemy, Mar 7:22, and be evil spoken of, Rom 14:16; 1Co 10:30. Paul uses the word, but not in the active voice as in the Pastorals.