Vincent Word Studies - Romans 13:9 - 13:9

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Vincent Word Studies - Romans 13:9 - 13:9


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Thou shalt not commit adultery, etc.

Omit thou shalt not bear false witness. The seventh commandment precedes the sixth, as in Mar 10:19; Luk 18:20; Jam 2:11.

It is briefly comprehended (ἀνακεφαλαιοῦται)

Only here and Eph 1:10. Rev., it is summed up. Ἁνά has the force of again in the sense of recapitulation. Compare Lev 19:18. The law is normally a unit in which there is no real separation between the commandments. “Summed up in one word.” The verb is compounded, not with κεφαλή head, but with its derivative κεφάλαιον the main point.

Namely thou shalt love, etc. (ἐν τῷ ἀγαπήσεις)

The Greek idiom is, it is summed up in the thou shalt love, the whole commandment being taken as a substantive with the definite article.

Neighbor (τὸν πλησίον)

See on Mat 5:43.