Robertson Word Pictures - Romans 12:9 - 12:9

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Robertson Word Pictures - Romans 12:9 - 12:9


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Without hypocrisy (anupokritos). Late double compound adjective for which see note on 2Co 6:6. Hypocritical or pretended love is no love at all as Paul describes agapē in 1Co 13:1-13.

Abhor (apostugountes). Old verb with intensive (apo) dislike, only here in N.T. The present active participle is here employed in the sense of the present active indicative as sometimes happens with the independent participle (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1132ff.). This same idiom appears with kollōmenoi (cleaving) for which verb see 1Co 6:17, with proēgoumenoi (preferring) in Rom 12:10 (old verb here only in N.T.), and with the participles in Rom 12:11-13 and again in Rom 12:16-18. One can supply este if he prefers.