Rom 12:9. Ἡ ἀγάπη, love) He treated of faith from Rom 12:3; he is now to treat of love. Verses 9, 10, 11 have respect to ch. 7; Rom 12:12 to ch. 8; Rom 12:13 to ch. 9 and the following chapters, concerning the communion of believers whether Jews or Greeks. The third clause of the sixteenth verse is repeated from ch. Rom 11:25.-ἀποστυγοῦντες-κολλώμενοι, abhorring-cleaving) both in the mind and in the outward manifestation of it, even when at the risk of incurring danger and ill-will. The ἀνυπόκριτος, the man without dissimulation, is shown in Pro 8:7, Let my lips HATE wickedness; wickedness is an ABOMINATION to my lips. This is rightly connected with love, 1Co 13:6. Very emphatic words. He, who is without hatred of evil, does not really love good. From this passage, the discourse moves forward in pairs of sentences. [There are men 1) who patronise evil and assail good: 2) who love good, but do not abhor evil with that indignation which it deserves: 3) who disdain evil, but cherish good more coldly than is proper: 4) who so abhor evil and cleave to good, as that in their case no one can be ignorant of it.-V. g.]