12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.



Ver. 12. That ye be not slothful] A ready heart makes riddance of God’s work. Shake off sloth. Spontaneae lassitudines morbos loquuntur, saith Hippocrates. Sure I am that dulness and luskishness argue a diseased soul.



But followers of them] It was a good law that the Ephesians made, that men should propound to themselves the best patterns, and ever bear in mind some eminent man, áéåí õðïìéìíçóêåïèáé ôéíïò ôùí ôç áñåôç ÷ñùìåíùí ..