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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

πάσης πλεονεξίας. “Every form of covetousness”: comp. πάντα πειρασμόν, “every kind of temptation” (4:13); πᾶσα ἁμαρτία καὶ βλασφημία (Mt. 12:31). On πλεονεξία “the greedy desire to have more,” as a more comprehensive vice than φιλαργυρία, see Lft. Epp. p. 56 and on Col. 3:5. He quotes φυλάξασθε οὖν ἀπὸ τῆς πορνείας καὶ τῆς φιλαργυρίας (Test. 12. Patr. Jud. 18.), and somewhat differs from Trench, Syn. xxiv. Jesus, knowing what is at the root of the brother’s unreasonable request,
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