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Gal_5:21. Φθόνοι , φόνοι ] paronomasia, as in Rom_1:29; Eur. Troad. 736.
κῶμοι ] revellings, comissationes, especially at night; Herm. Privatalterth. § 17. 29. Comp. Rom_13:13; 1Pe_4:3; Plat. Theaet. p. 173 D: δεῖπνα καὶ σὺν αὐλητρίσι κῶμοι . Symp. p. 212 C; Isaeus, p. 39. 21: κῶμοι καὶ ἀσέλγεια . Herod. i. 21: πίνειν κ . κώμῳ χρέεσθαι ἐς ἀλλήλους . Jacobs, Del. epigr. iv. 43: κώμου κ . πάσης κοίρανε παννυχίδος .
καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τούτοις ] and the things which are similar to these (the whole matters mentioned in Gal_5:20-21). “Addit et iis similia, quia quis omnem lernam carnalis vitae recenseat?” Luther, 1519.
The προ in προλέγω and προεῖπον is the beforehand in reference to the future realization (Herod. i. 53, vii. 116; Lucian. Jov. Trag. 30; Polyb. vi. 3. 2) at the παρουσία ; and the past προεῖπον reminds the readers of the instructions and warnings orally given to them, the tenor of which justifies us in thinking that he is referring to the first and second sojourn in Galatia.
πράσσοντες ] those who practise such things; but in Gal_5:17 ποιῆτε : ye do. See on Rom_1:32; Joh_3:20.
βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομ .] Comp. 1Co_6:9 f., 1Co_15:50; Eph_5:5; Jam_2:5; and generally, Rom_6:8 ff. Sins of this kind, therefore, exclude the Christian from the kingdom of the Messiah, and cause him to incur condemnation, unless by μετάνοια he again enters into the life of faith, and so by renewed faith appropriates forgiveness (2Co_7:9-10; Rom_8:34; 1Jn_2:1 f.; observe the present participle). For the having been reconciled by faith is the preliminary condition of the new holy life (Romans 6), and therefore does not cancel responsibility in the judgment (2Co_5:10; Rom_14:10).