of  the  mother  of  our  Lord.  ^  The  aorist  is  the  epistolary  tense.     There

1  He  means  to  say  that,  to  have  this  right  is  considerable  difference  of  reading  in  this

of  maintenance,  a  man  need  be  no  Apostle.  verse,  but  not  materially  affecting  the  sense.
^  Deut.  XXV.  4  (LXX.),  quoted  also  1  Tim.  "  "Necessity"  here  is  the  compulsion  ex-

V.  18.  ercised  by  a  master  over  a  slave.      In  calling

■*  The  proper  meaning  of  the  verb  used  his  service  compulsory,  St.  Paul  refers  to  the

here  is  to  hold  out  against,  as  a  fortress  against  miraculous  character  of  his  conversion,
assault,  or  ice  against  superincumbent  weight.  *  This  "  stewardship  "  consisted  in  dispens-

Compare  xiii.  7,  and  1  Thess.  iii.  1.  .  ing  his  Master's  goods   to  his  fellow-slares.
*  Numbers  vii.  and  Deut.  xviii.  See  iv.  1 .  2.
442  THE  LIFE  AND  EPISTLES   OF  ST.   PAUL.  chap.xv.
