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Lest haply your hearts be overcharged (mē pote barēthōsin hai kardiai humōn). First aorist passive subjunctive of bareō, an old verb to weigh down, depress, with mē pote.
With surfeiting (en krepalēi). A rather late word, common in medical writers for the nausea that follows a debauch. Latin crapula, the giddiness caused by too much wine. Here only in the N.T.
Drunkenness (methēi). From methu (wine). Old word but in the N.T. only here and Rom 13:13; Gal 5:21.
Cares of this life (merimnais biōtikais). Anxieties of life. The adjective biōtikos is late and in the N.T. only here and 1Co 6:3.
Come on you (epistēi). Second aorist active subjunctive of ephistēmi, ingressive aorist. Construed also with mē pote.
Suddenly (ephnidios). Adjective in predicate agreeing with hēmera (day).
As a snare (hōs pagis). Old word from pēgnumi, to make fast a net or trap. Paul uses it several times of the devil’s snares for preachers (1Ti 3:7; 2Ti 2:26).