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Reproved (elegchomenos). Present passive participle of elegchō, an old verb meaning in Homer to treat with contempt, then to convict (Mat 18:15), to expose (Eph 5:11), to reprove as here. The substantive elegchos means proof (Heb 11:1) and elegmos, censure (2Ti 3:16). Josephus (Ant. XVIII. V.4) shows how repulsive this marriage was to Jewish feeling. Evil things (ponērōn). Incorporated into the relative sentence. The word is from ponos, poneō, toil, work, and gives the active side of evil, possibly with the notion of work itself as evil or at least an annoyance. The “evil eye” (ophthalmos ponēros in Mar 7:22) was a “mischief working eye” (Vincent). In Mat 6:23 it is a diseased eye. So Satan is “the evil one” (Mat 5:37; Mat 6:13, etc.). It is a very common adjective in the N.T. as in the older Greek.
Had done (epoiēsen). Aorist active indicative, not past perfect, merely a summary constative aorist, he did.