but in the LXX. it came to be used for victims which were ‘without blemish,’ and this sense prevails here, and in 1 Pet. 1:19; Heb. 9:14. The addition of ἀνεγκλήτους in the parallel passage of the Colossians (1:22) gives a moral colour to the word there, and this meaning is dominant in Jude 24 and Apoc. 14:5. The combination ἅγιοι καὶ ἄμωμοι (comp. c. 5:27) gives the fulness of the conception positively and negatively. Chrysostom expresses another aspect of the combination: ἅγιός ἐστιν