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Sound (hugiē, Attic usually hugiā in accusative singular), elsewhere in Pastorals participle hugianōn (Tit 2:1).
That cannot be condemned (akatagnōston). Only N.T. example (verbal, a privative and katagnōstos) and in 4 Maccabees 4:47. Deissmann (Bible Studies, p. 200) quotes it from an inscription and the adverb from a papyrus.
He that is of the contrary part (ho ex enantias). “The one on the opposite side” (your opponent). Cf. Tit 2:9; 1Ti 5:14.
May be ashamed (hina entrapēi). Final clause with hina and second aorist passive subjunctive of entrepō, to turn, in middle and passive to turn one on himself and so be ashamed (to blush) as in 2Th 3:14; 1Co 4:14. This sense in the papyri.
Evil (phaulon). Old word, easy (easy morals), worthless; bad, as in 2Co 5:10.