man. The possibility of the lapse of even the just is assumed. See on ch. 6:4–6. The verb only here, Acts 20:20, 27; Gal. 2:12. See on Acts 20:20. Rare in LXX. Shall have no pleasure (οὐκ εὐδοκεῖ). Rend. “hath no pleasure.” “If he draw back—in him,” not in the Hebrew, which reads, “behold, puffed up within him is his soul, it is not upright.” The clauses of the LXX are transposed here. 39. But we are not of them who draw back (ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐκ ἐσμὲν ὑποστολῆς). Lit. we are not of shrinking