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Jam 1:11. Ἀνέτειλε-ἀπώλετο, the sun is risen-it perisheth) Here are four circumstances (turning points): the first is the cause of the second, the third of the fourth.-καύσωνι) the mid-day “heat” and parching wind, which follows the “rising” of the sun. A gradation.-ἡ εὐπρέπεια, the comeliness) which is in the flower.-πορείαις, his goings) In other places εὐπορία, “abundance of resources” [success in one’s ways or goings], is attributed to the rich; but the apostle uses the simple word, and that too in the plural number, on account of the burdensome greatness (extent) of his undertakings. Πορεία, a journey, from πορεύομαι, “I go,” as βασιλεία from βασιλεύω. I attribute no weight to the reading πορίαις.[8]-μαρανθήσεται, shall fade away) in death.
[8] It was necessary to bring forward this reading in the Appar. p. 728, because Mill speaks obscurely respecting some Manuscripts which have this reading, and is silent respecting Estius quoting Gaignæus.
A reads πορίαις. But the weight of authorities is for πορείαις; Vulg. itineribus-E.