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1Th_4:5 brings forward the prescription ἐν ἁγιασμῷ καὶ τιμῇ once more on account of its importance, but now in a negative form.
μὴ ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας ] not in the passion of desire. Accordingly, Paul does not here forbid ἐπιθυμία , for this in itself, as a natural impulse, rests on the holy ordinance of God, but a πάθος ἐπιθυμίας , that is, a condition where sense has been converted into the ruling principle or into passion. Theodore Mopsuestius (ed. Fritzsche, p. 165): ὡσὰν τοῦτο ποιοῦντος οὐκέτι ταύτῃ ὡς γυναικὶ συνόντος ἀλλὰ διὰ μίξιν μόνην ἁπλῶς , ὅπερ πάθος ἐπιθυμίας ἐκάλεσεν .
καί ] after καθάπερ is not added for the sake of elegance (Pelt), but is the usual καί after particles of comparison; see 1Th_2:14, 1Th_3:6; 1Th_3:12, 1Th_4:6; 1Th_4:13; Rom_4:6, etc.; Hartung, Partikell. I. p. 126.
τὰ μὴ εἰδότα τὸν Θεόν ] of whom nothing better is to be expected. Comp. on the expression, Gal_4:8; 2Th_1:8.