¹⁶ i.e. slaves.

¹⁷ a9plw=j e#cw pro/skeitai.

¹⁸ oi9khma/twn.

¹⁹ oi\kon.

²⁰ th\n e0leuqe/ran.

²¹ the open spaces of the streets where idlers gathered.

²² leptw=n o0qoni/wn.

²³ skepa/smata.

²⁴ a0rkesqhso/meqa.

²⁵ "body of spectators"

²⁶ fronhmatiw=n.

²⁷ u9po/dikoi.

²⁸ koitwni/skw.

²⁹ ta\ h9me/tero.

³⁰ tai=j proqh/kaij tai=j e0pi\ tw=n e0rgasthri/wn.

³¹ qala/mou.

³² katwferh\j.

³³ or, "conceal,'" peristelei=tai.

³⁴ fqo/nouj.

³⁵ See Hom. xiv. [8.] pp. 436, 437.

³⁶ fa/lamoj.

³⁷ numfw\n.

¹ or, "accepteth."

² e0pistre/fei, or, "turns, converts to God."

³ to\ kau/xhma tou= Xristou= ta\ paqh/mata, or, "our glory-our boast-the sufferings of Christ."

⁴ sfo/dra pne/ousan.

⁵ [There is a paronomasia here To\ a0ntikate/sthte, pro\j tou\j e9stw=taj ei@rhtai, which cannot easily be reproduced in English.-F. G.]

⁶ to\ toiau=ta dunhqh=nai.

⁷ ei0j paidei/an. ei0j paidei/an u9pome/nete is the reading of the best mss. &c. of St. Chrys. as it is the approved reading of the Epistle. The later [printed] texts have the later reading ei0 p. u9p.

⁸ The common texts substitute Jacob for Isaac here, omitting the following clause where Jacob is mentioned (as they also in the preceding sentence have "temptations" instead of "families"); to correct the apparent inaccuracies of the text. But Mr. Field shows from other passages of St. Chrys. that he really means Isaac, having in view Gen. xxvi. 18-22, 27.

⁹ St. Chrys. seems to have read this text without the words h9 pu/lh.

¹⁰ "to the heat," skiatrofi/a.

¹¹ e0n th=| e0rh/mw|, "dry and open part?"

¹² fqo/ggoi.

¹³ a0na/gkaj.

¹⁴ noshleu/wmen.

¹⁵ e0kplu/neij...e0ci/thlon, lit. "washed out," and "faded," as when colors are washed out of dresses.

¹⁶ e0kplu/neij...e0ci/thlon, lit. "washed out," and "faded," as when colors are washed out of dresses.

¹⁷ e0rga/zetai.

¹⁸ u9pe/rantlon.

¹⁹ go/mfouj.

²⁰ pladw=sa, "wet and soft."

¹ "of joy."

² "of grief."

³ [The Revision has here correctly "have been exercised," and it is so commented upon by St. Chrys. below.-F. G.]

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