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Terrified (πτυρόμενοι)
Only here in the New Testament. Properly of the terror of a startled horse. Thus Diodorus Siculus, speaking of the chariot-horses of Darius at the battle of Issus: “Frightened (πτυρόμενοι) by reason of the multitude of the dead heaped round them, they shook off their reins” (xvii. 34). Plutarch says: “The multitude is not easy to handle so that it is safe for any one to take the reins; but it should be held sufficient, if, not being scared by sight or sound, like a shy and fickle animal, it accept mastery.”
Which is (ἥτις ἐστὶν)
Seeing that it is.
An evident token (ἔνδειξις)
Only here, Rom 3:25, Rom 3:26; 2Co 8:24. Lit., a pointing out. Used in Attic law of a writ of indictment. A demonstration or proof.
To you of salvation (ὑμῖν)
Read ὑμῶν of you. Rev., of your salvation.
And that of God
Rev., from God (ἀπό). Lightfoot finds here an allusion, in accord with striving together, to the sign of life or death given by the populace in the amphitheater when a gladiator was vanquished, by turning the thumbs up or down. “The christian gladiator does not anxiously await the signal of life or death from the fickle crowd. The great Director of the contest Himself has given him a sure token of deliverance.”