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1Pe 2:11. Ἀγαπητοὶ, dearly beloved) A friendly and well-disposed exhortation.-παρακαλῶ, I beseech you) So ch. 1Pe 5:1. [A great exhortation, of which the former part begins here; the second part in the middle of 1Pe 2:15, ch. 3. Both parts have ἵνα ἐν ᾧ, κ.τ.λ., ch. 1Pe 2:12, and 1Pe 3:16.-Not. Crit.]-παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμονς, strangers and foreigners) A gradation: ye are not only as in a strange house, but even as in a foreign city, ye who believe of the Jews and Gentiles. The reason why ye should abstain. Lev 25:23, Septuagint, προσήλυτοι καὶ πάροικοι ὑμεῖς ἐστε ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ, ye are strangers and sojourners before Me. Psa 39:12, ὅτι πάροικος ἐγώ εἰμι ἐν τῇ γῇ καὶ παρεπίδημος, καθὼς πάντες οἱ πατέρες μον, for I am a stranger on the earth and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Comp. Heb 11:13, note.-ἀπέχεσθε, abstain) The Imperative,[17] as ch. 1Pe 5:1-2, I exhort-feed. Thus cohere the words, having your conversation, etc., 1Pe 2:12, and ch. 1Pe 3:7-9, and the word ready [ἕτοιμοι coming after the previous Imperative, as ἔχοντες here], ch. 1Pe 3:15.-σαρκικῶν, carnal) 2Pe 2:10; 2Pe 2:18.-στρατεύονται, war) Not only do they hinder, but attack. A fine word.
[17] Not the Infinitive ἀπέχεσθαι, as B Vulg. and Rec. Text. But ἀπέχεσθε in AC, both Syr. Versions, Memph. and Cyprian.-E.