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17. διὸ Ἐξέλθατε. The Apostle draws the conclusion to which he pointed in 2Co 6:14. God’s people must be separated from the life of the heathen, at once and decisively (aor. imperat.). The quotation is made freely from memory, and is a mosaic of several passages; Isa 52:11-12; Eze 20:34; comp. Eze 11:17; Zep 3:20; Zec 10:8. Exite de medio eorum, non corpore, sed mente, non vagatione loci, sed devotione (Atto Verc.).
κἀγὼ εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς. And I will welcome you. The compound occurs nowhere else in the N.T., but is fairly common in the LXX., esp. of the Divine promises (Hos 8:10; Mic 4:6; Zec 10:10; Jer 23:3; &c.), as here. Cremer, Lex. p. 687. In Lk. and Acts ἀποδέχομαι is common. Both mean ‘receive with favour.’