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Gal 5:22.[55] Ἀγάπη, love) It is this grace, as the leader, that[56] introduces the family. Fewer words are used with respect to what is good, because good is more simple, and one virtue often has many things contrary to it; comp. Eph 4:31.-χαρὰ, joy) concerning things that are good.-χρηστότης, ἀγαθωσύνη) differ.[57] χρηστότης is rather to be referred to another, ἀγαθωσύνη, goodness, as it were pouring out, viz. spontaneously.-πίστις) אמונה, consistency [steadiness], fidelity, to which are opposed seditions and heresies. Weigh well also the order of the words.
[55] Ὁ καρπὸς, the fruit) Singular, not plural. The works of the flesh are many, and these, too, scattered; the fruit of the Spirit constitutes an entire whole, and that, too, united.-V. g.
[56] Or else, “With this Grace as the leader Paul introduces the family.”-ED.
[57] Jerome, Comm. ad Gal 5:22, explains χρηστότης as Benignity conciliatory towards others: but ἀγαθωσύνη as goodness, which, though ready to do good to others, is not of such a winning aspect and of such sweetness of manner as χρηστότης. Comp. ζυγὸς χρηστός, Mat 11:30.-ED.