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1Ti_6:18. The negative ideas of the previous verse are followed by four positive, joined two and two.
ἀγαθοεργεῖν , πλουτεῖν ἐν ἔργοις καλοῖς ] These ideas are synonymous, the second, however, being stronger than the first. It is not probable that we are to think only of the practice of benevolence; that is brought out in the next two expressions. On ἀγαθοεργεῖν , comp. Act_14:17, where, however, the Rec. has ἀγαθοπιῶν ; the word ἀγαθοποιεῖν in Num_10:32, LXX.; 1Ma_11:33.
πλουτεῖν ἐν ἐργ . ἀγ . hints at τοῖς πλουσίοις ἐν τ . νῦν αἰῶνι (Wiesinger).
εὐμεταδότους εἶναι , κοινωνικούς ] The two expressions occur only here in the N. T.: μεταδίδωμι is, however, used specially of giving to the poor in Luk_3:11; Rom_12:8; Eph_4:28. Some expositors wrongly find in κοινωνικούς an express contrast to ὑψηλοφρονεῖν ; Chrysostom: = ὁμιλητικοί , προσηνεῖς . It stands here like κοινωνεῖν , Gal_6:6; κοινωνία (joined with εὐποιΐα ), Heb_13:16.