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Paul changes the construction again to twelve substantives and adjectives that give vivid touches to this composite photograph of the God abandoned soul.
Whisperers (psithuristas). Old word from psithurizō, to speak into the ear, to speak secretly, an onomatopoetic word like psithurismos (2Co 12:20) and only here in N.T.
Backbiters (katalalous). Found nowhere else except in Hermas, compound like katalaleō, to talk back (Jam 4:11), and katalalia, talking back (2Co 12:20), talkers back whether secretly or openly.
Hateful to God (theostugeis). Old word from theos and stugeō. All the ancient examples take it in the passive sense and so probably here. So stugētos (Tit 3:13). Vulgate has deo odibiles.
Insolent (hubristas). Old word for agent from hubrizō, to give insult to, here alone in N.T. save 1Ti 1:13.
Haughty (huperēphanous). From huper and phainomai, to appear above others, arrogant in thought and conduct, “stuck up.”
Boastful (alazonas). From alē, wandering. Empty pretenders, swaggerers, braggarts.
Inventors of evil things (epheuretas kakōn). Inventors of new forms of vice as Nero was. Tacitus (Ann. IV. ii) describes Sejanus as facinorum omnium repertor and Virgil (Aen. ii. 163) scelerum inventor.
Disobedient to parents (goneusin apeitheis). Cf. 1Ti 1:9; 2Ti 3:2. An ancient and a modern trait.