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33. τοῦτο μὲν … τοῦτο δέ. Distributive formula, used adverbially, Winer.
θεατρίζομενοι. Lit., “being set upon a stage.” The same metaphor is used in 1Co 4:9 (“We became a theatre,” comp. 1Co 15:32). It was however fearfully literal to many Christians in the Neronian and later persecutions in which Christian youths had to undertake on the stage the characters of Hercules and Mucius and Laureolus, displaying to the blood-corrupted spectators a horrible realism of agony; and even Christian maidens had to appear in the characters of Dirce or the Danaids. See Sueton. Nero, 12, Caius, 57; Juv. Sat. VIII. 186; Mart. X. 25, VIII. 30, Spectac. VII.; Clem. Rom. ad Cor. i. 6 γυναῖκες Δαναΐδες καὶ Δίρκαι. And see Renan L’Antéchrist, pp. 168–175.
κοινωνοί. “Partakers.”
οὕτως ἀναστρεφομένων. “Who lived in this condition of things.”