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Be ye free from the love of money (aphilarguros ho tropos). No copula, but supply esto: “Let your manner of life (tropos, way, Mat 23:37), be without love of money” (aphilarguros, double compound), once found only in the N.T., here and 1Ti 3:3, but now several times - or the adverb aphilargurōs - in papyri and inscriptions (Deissmann, Light, etc., pp. 85f.). Alpha privative and philos and arguros. The N.T. is full of the peril of money on the character as modern life is also.
Content with such things as ye have (arkoumenoi tois parousin). Present passive participle of arkeō, to suffice, to be content as in Luk 3:14. Cf. autarkēs in Phi 4:11. Here in the nominative plural with no substantive or pronoun (anacoluthon, as in 2Co 1:7) or the participle used as a principal verb as in Rom 12:16. “Contented with the present things” (tois parousin, associative instrumental case of ta paronta, present active neuter plural participle of pareimi, to be present or on hand).
For himself hath said (autos gar eirēken). God himself as in Act 20:33 of Christ. Perfect active indicative as in Heb 1:13; Heb 4:3.; Heb 10:9. The quotation is a free paraphrase of Gen 28:15; Deu 31:8; Jos 1:5; 1Ch 28:20. Philo (de Confus. Ling. 32) has it in this form, “a popular paraphrase” (Moffatt). Note the five negatives strengthening each other (ou mē with the second aorist active subjunctive anō from aniēmi, to relate, as in Act 16:26; oud' ou mē with second aorist active subjunctive egkatalipō from egkataleipō, to leave behind, as in Mat 27:46; 2Ti 4:10). A noble promise in times of depression.