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2Co_6:17. With the foregoing quotation Paul now combines another in keeping with his aim (2Co_6:14), containing the application which God has made of His previous promise. But this quotation is still freer than the one before, after the LXX. Isa_52:11, and the last words, κἀγὼ εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς , are perhaps joined with it through a reminiscence of Eze_20:34 (comp. Eze_11:17; Zec_10:8). Osiander and most expositors find in κἀγὼ εἰσδέξ . ὑμ . a reproduction approximately as to sense of the words in Isa_52:12 : καὶ ὁ ἐπισυνάγων ὑμᾶς κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ ; but this is, at any rate, far-fetched, and, considering Paul’s usual freedom in joining different passages of the O. T., unnecessarily hars.
αὐτῶν ] applies to the heathen.
ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἅπτεσθε ] Just as ἐξέλθετε κ . τ . λ . had referred (aorist) to the separation to be accomplished from the fellowship of heathen life, so this refers, in the sense of the prophetic fulfilment, to the continuing (present) abstinence from all heathen habits (not simply from offerings to idols), and κἀγὼ εἰσδέξ . ὑμ . to their reception into sonship, see 2Co_6:18. It is correlative to ἐξέλθατε ; God wishes to receive those who have gone forth into His paternal house, i.e. into the fellowship of the true theocracy (2Co_6:18).