Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Mark 7:22 - 7:22

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Mark 7:22 - 7:22


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22. πλεονεξίαι. Efforts to get more than one’s due, forms of selfishness; see on 2Co 9:5 and cf. Luk 12:15; Col 3:5. In Rom 1:29 we have πλεον. coupled with πονηρία.

δόλος. Conspicuous in Christ’s enemies (Mar 3:6; Mar 3:22, Mar 14:1); the true Israelite has none of it (Joh 1:48).

ἀσέλγεια. Unblushing licentiousness defying public opinion, such as was seen at the court of Antipas (Mar 6:22 f.). Like ὕβρις, it cares nothing for the feelings of others. Vulg. has impudicitia here.

ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρός. A belief in the “evil eye,” which brings ill to the person or thing on which it rests, seems to be almost universal in savage and half-civilized nations. But belief in a person whose look blighted without his willing it, the Italian jettatore, is not found in Scripture. There the ἀνὴρ βάσκανος (Pro 23:6; Pro 28:22) is envious, jealous, and grudging, and his “evil eye” is φθόνος and πλεονεξία combined; ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρὸς φθονερὸς ἐπʼ ἄρτῳ, “an evil eye is envious over bread” (Sir 14:8; Sir 14:10; cf. Sir 31:12-14; Tob 4:7; Deu 15:9; Deu 28:54; Deu 28:56). see on 2Co 9:6-7, and on the whole subject F. T. Elworthy, Evil Eye (1895); Lightfoot on Gal 3:1.

βλασφημία. Not “blasphemy” (A.V.), but railing (R.V.), or “backbiting,” καταλαλία. see on 2Co 12:20. In 1Pe 2:1 we have φθόνους καὶ πάσας καταλαλίας, which is much the same as ὀφθ., πον. and βλασφημία.

ὑπερηφανία. Here only in N.T., but freq. in LXX. See esp. Sir 10:7; Sir 10:12; Sir 10:18. It is the sin of the “superior” person, who loves to make himself conspicuous and “sets all others at nought” (Luk 18:9). The ὑπερήφανοι are condemned Luk 1:51; Rom 1:30; 2Ti 3:2; 1Pe 5:5; Jam 4:6, the last two being quotations from Pro 3:32. In the Psalms of Solomon, ὑπερηφανία is often used of the insolent pride of the heathen as opponents of Jehovah.

ἀφροσύνη. The fool in Scripture (ἄφρων, μωρός, ἀνόητος, ἄσοφος) is one who does not know the moral value of things; he thinks that sin is a joke, and mocks at those who treat it seriously. Hence the severity with which he is condemned. In the Shepherd of Hermas there is much about ἀφροσύνη, Man. v. ii. 4, Sim. vi. Mar 7:2-3, ix. xv. 3, xii. 2, 3. It renders other vices incurable.