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These studies and translations of the Greek New Testament are simplified commentaries on the Greek text for the Bible student who is not conversant with the Greek language. The set includes commentaries on the Gospels and Epistles; graphic elucidations of selected passages, words, and phrases; and devotional studies on the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.

worship” is ethelothrēskeia (ἐθελοθρησκεια), “voluntary, arbitrary worship, a worship which one devises and prescribes for himself, contrary to the contents and nature of the faith which ought to be directed to Christ” (Thayer). Lightfoot defines, “in volunteered, self-imposed, officious, supererogatory service, one or both of these two ideas, (1) excessive readiness, officious zeal, (2) affectation, unreality, are involved in this and similar compounds.” The word “humility” is here disparaged