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Holding forth (ἐπέχοντες)
The verb means literally to hold upon or apply. Hence to fix attention upon, as Luk 14:7; Act 3:5; 1Ti 4:16. In Act 19:22, stayed: where the idea at bottom is the same - kept to. So in Sept., Job 27:8, of setting the heart on gain. Job 30:26, “fixed my mind on good.” In Gen 8:10, of Noah waiting. In classical Greek, to hold out, present, as to offer wine to a guest or the breast to an infant. Also to stop, keep down, confine, cease. Here in the sense of presenting or offering, as A.V. and Rev. holding forth.
That I may rejoice (εἰς καύχημα ἐμοὶ)
Lit., for a cause of glorying unto me.
In the day of Christ (εἰς ἡμέραν Χριστοῦ)
Lit., against the day, as Phi 1:10. The phrase day of Christ is peculiar to this epistle. The usual expression is day of the Lord.
Have not run (οὐκ ἔδραμον)
Rev., better, did not run. Aorist tense. Ignatius writes to Polycarp to ordain some one “beloved and unwearied, who may be styled God's courier” (θεοδρόμος. To Polycarp, 7).