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Your forbearance (to epieikes humōn). “Your gentleness,” “your sweet reasonableness” (Matthew Arnold), “your moderation.” Old adjective (epi, eikos) as in Jam 3:17; 1Ti 3:3. Article and neuter singular here= hē epieikeia (Act 24:4; 2Co 10:1) like to chrēston in Rom 2:4.
The Lord is at hand (ho kurios eggus). “The Apostle’s watchword” (Lightfoot), as in 1Co 16:22 (Maran atha, Aramaic equivalent, Our Lord cometh). Unless, indeed, eggus here means near in space instead of nigh in time.