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i.e. To the ends he subjoins, namely, that ye may approve things that are excellent; that upon a due expense of circumstances in a judicious trial, upon rightly discerning the differences of things not obvious to every eye, so as to choose and approve those things that are really to be preferred, being the best, Rom_2:18 1Th_5:21 surpassing all desirable things besides, Eph_3:19, as being most acceptable unto God, Rom_12:2.
That ye may be sincere; and be upright, Pro_11:20. It is all emphatical word in the original here, being borrowed either from such things as are tried by being held up at the beams of the sun to see What faults or flaws are in them, whether without fraud, or else from such as are clarified by the heat of the sun; and notes here, that Paul would have them to be uncorrupt and impartial in heart and life, in faith and manners; free from prevailing corruptions, of pure minds, 2Pe_3:1; purged from the old leaven, 1Co_5:6-8; not suffering the knowledge of Christ to be mixed with traditions and human inventions, but endowed with evangelical simplicity in the sight of God, 2Co_1:12 1Ti_1:5 5:22.
And without offence; not erring from the main scope and design of Christianity, or stumbling, so as either actively or passively to trouble and offend either themselves or others in the heavenly course, but working so prudently, as to give no just occasion of scandal, or laying a snare for one or other, Mat_18:7 Act_24:16 1Co_10:32; abiding blameless to the coming of Christ, 1Th_5:23.
Till the day of Christ: see on Phi_1:6; repeated here to engage them unto serious thoughtfulness of that day.