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4. χρηστότητος. The word has special reference to GOD’S generous gifts to men; cf. Rom 11:22; Eph 2:7; Tit 3:4. Here = the generosity which has conferred graces and benefits which the man, who presumes to judge, mistakes for special excellences of his own, and so makes light of the Giver; e.g. cf. Rom 2:17 f.
τῆς ἀνοχῆς, ‘forbearance,’ Rom 3:26; cf. Act 17:30. μακροθυμία = the long continuance of χρηστότης and ἀνοχή in spite of men’s ways: a favourite word with S. Paul Cf. Psa 7:11, the adjective freq. of GOD in O. T.; cf. 1Pe 3:20.
ἀγνοῶν. Once more man misses the aim which GOD proposes.
τὸ χρηστὸν. The neut. adj. for the abstract subst. = ἡ χρηστότης. For the thought, 2Pe 3:15.
ἄγει, ‘is (always) leading thee,’ a good instance of the linear action of the present, describing tendency not fulfilled.