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Gal 5:23. Τῶν τοιούτων, against such [persons]) This is the same, as if he had added, after temperance, the expression, and things similar to these; although the very want of the copulative conjunction [the asyndeton] has this force, Mat 15:19, note: τῶν τοιούτων is in the masculine; with which comp. Gal 5:18; Gal 5:21, at the end; where πράσσοντες is added, which is now as it were compensated for by τοιούτων [such persons]: 1Ti 1:9-10, at the beginning.-οὐκ ἔστι νόμος, there is no law) The law itself commands love. [And therefore the kingdom of God is judged not to be unworthy of such persons.-V. g.]