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2Co_6:15. The five different shades given to the notion of fellowship vouch for the command which the apostle had over the Greek language.
Regarding the use of δέ before a new question with the same word of interrogation, see Hartung, Partikell. I. p. 169.
Βελίαρ ] Name of the devil (the Peshito has Satan), properly áÌÀìÀéÌÇòÇì (wickedness, as concrete equivalent to Πονηρός ); hence the reading Βελίαλ (Elzevir, Lachmann) is most probably a correction. The form βελίαρ , which also occurs frequently in the Test. XII. Patr. (see Fabricius, Pseudepigr. V. T. I. pp. 539, 587, 619, al.), in Ignatius as interpolated, in the Canon. Ap., and in the Fathers (see Wetstein, critical remarks), is to be explained from the not unfrequent interchange of λ and ρ in the common speech of the Greek Jews. In the O. T. the word does not occur as a name. See, generally, Gesenius, Thesaurus, I. p. 210.
συμφώνησις , harmony, accord, only here in the N T., not in the LXX. The Greeks say συμφωνία and σύμφωνον (with πρός , Polyb. vi. 36. 5; Plat. Lach. p. 188 D); the simple form φώνησις in Pollux ii. 111.
On μερίς , share, comp. Act_8:21. The two have no partnership with one another, possess nothing in common with one another. The believer has, in Christ, righteousness, peace, etc., all of which the unbeliever has not, and one day will have μερὶς τοῦ κλήρου τῶν ἁγίων , Col_1:12. In strict logic ἢ τίς μερὶς … ἀπίστου did not belong to this series of elements of proof, since it contains the proposition itself to be proved, but it has come in amidst the lively, sweeping flow of the discourse.