the so-called active sense of such nouns; not, as Alford observes, “an active sense properly at all, but a logical transference from the effect to that which exemplifies the effect.” In fact, those aspects of active and passive meanings depend on the view assumed—whether one thinks first of the container, and then of the contained, or the reverse. Thus, Ps. 24:1; 1 Cor. 10:26, ἡ γῆ καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς—“the earth and its fulness.” So the noun is used of the inhabitants of a city, as its complement