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Scarcely (molis). Common adverb from molos, toil. See note on Act 14:18. As between dikaios, righteous, and agathos, good, Lightfoot notes “all the difference in the world” which he shows by quotations from Plato and Christian writers, a difference of sympathy mainly, the dikaios man being “absolutely without sympathy” while the agathos man “is beneficent and kind.”
Would even dare (kai tolmāi). Present active indicative of tolmaō, to have courage. “Even dares to.” Even so in the case of the kindly sympathetic man courage is called for to make the supreme sacrifice.
Perhaps (tacha). Common adverb (perhaps instrumental case) from tachus (swift). Only here in N.T.