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Eph_6:8. Εἰδότες ] Incitement to the mode of service demanded, Eph_6:5-7 : since ye know that whatever good thing each one shall have done, he shall bear off this (the good done) from the Lord, whether he be slave or free.
ὃ ἐάν τι ἕκαστος ] ἐάν in the relative clause with the subjunctive instead of ἄν (Buttmann, neut. Gramm. p. 63 [E. T. 72]), and τί separated from ὅς , as in Plato, Legg. ix. p. 864 E: ἣν ἄν τινα καταβλάψῃ , Lys. p. 160: ὃς ἄν τις ὑμᾶς εὖ ποιῇ .
τοῦτο κομ .] Expression of entirely adequate recompense. See on 2Co_5:10.
παρὰ κυρίου ] from Christ, at the judgment.
εἴτε δοῦλος , εἴτε ἐλεύθ .] ἔδειξε τῷ παρόντι βίῳ πεπωρισμένην τὴν δουλείαν καὶ δεσποτείαν , μετὰ δέ γε τὴν ἐντεῦθεν ἐκδημίαν οὐκ ἔτι δουλείας καὶ δεσποτείας , ἀλλʼ ἀρετῆς καὶ κακίας ἐσομένην διαφοράν , Theodoret. It is evident, we may add, from our passage that Paul did not think of a ceasing of slavery among Christians before the Parousia,—a view which was very naturally connected with the conception of the nearness of the latter, which did not admit of his looking forth upon the development of centuries.