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If a brother or sister be naked (ean adelphos ē adelphē gumnoi huparchōsin). Condition again of third class (supposable case) with ean and present active subjunctive of huparchō, to exist, in the plural though ē (or) is used and not kai (and). Hence gumnoi is masculine plural in the predicate nominative. It does not here mean absolutely naked, but without sufficient clothing as in Mat 25:36.; Joh 21:7; Act 19:16.
In lack of daily food (leipomenoi tēs ephēmerou trophēs). Present passive participle of leipō and ablative case trophēs like leipetai sophias (Jam 1:5). The old adjective ephēmeros (ho epi hēmeran ōn, that which is for a day) occurs here only in the N.T., though ephēmeria (daily routine) is found in Luk 1:5, Luk 1:8. This phrase occurs in Diodorus, but not in lxx.