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31. πᾶσα πικρία καὶ θυμὸς καὶ ὀργὴ καὶ κραυγὴ καὶ βλασφημία. We pass now to a warning against all tokens of an unbrotherly temper. The stress laid on this side of Christian Ethics by all the N.T. writers is worth careful attention. The words here mark the stages in the development of a quarrel: πικρία is the feeling of bitterness that refuses reconciliation, θυμὸς an outburst of passion, ὀργὴ the settled state of irritation, κραυγὴ noisy denunciation, βλασφημία slanderous reviling.
ἀρθήτω ἀφʼ ὑμῶν. The phrase suggests indignant rejection, cf. Act 22:22.
σὺν πάσῃ κακίᾳ. ‘With every form of malice.’ Cf. 1Pe 2:1; Jam 1:21, with Hort’s notes.