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Luk 8:14. Καὶ πλούτου) Repeat ὑπὸ; comparing Mar 4:19, [where the cares of this world are made distinct from the deceitfulness of riches: showing that πλούτου here is governed, not by μεριμνῶν, but by ὑπό.] Construe the words with συμπνίγονται, they are choked.-πορευόμενοι, setting out, going their way) without any rapid and manifest apostasy (falling away), nay, even with some degree of progress. For this is the force of the verb ילך πορεύομαι. The increments in good and evil go on simultaneously, not only in the case of men collectively, Mat 13:30, but also in the case of individuals.-οὐ τελεσφοροῦσι) they do not hear the fruit perfected and ripened, viz. faith itself, in such a way as that they should attain the τέλος, or “end of faith, the salvation of their souls:” Luk 8:12 : comp. 1Pe 1:9. Plutarch, τελεσφόρα δένδρα.