All three classes of sins occur again in I C. 5, 9, and 1 1 ; and 6, 9. In
these is illustrated the freedom in compressing the lists in the

* dfOffTvytIs is not an exception: "ubique significat hominem Dit homini-
b\uque esoeum, i. e., hominem inaigniter improbum," Pritcsohe, Ep. ad Rom.
I, 85.
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primitive catechism, cp. 6, 9, and in amplifying any or all the
three precepts of the Conference. The two separated lists in
II Cor. 12, 20 f., are grouped respectively as sins against men and
as sins of impurity. The two lists in I Pet. 4, 3 and 15, cover in the
first group impurities and idolatries; and in the other, sins against
men.
The exhortations against sins against 'the neighbor,' Ephes.
4, 25 ff., which are contrasted in 5, 2 with ' the walk in love,' are
followed by those against the sin of fornication and its approaches,
concluding with 8 ianv tlSw\o\i.Tprii. The Colossian parallel
presents at 3, 5, a Ust relating to fornication, again ending with a
reference to idolatry; next, at vs. 8, a list of sins towards men,
which is contrasted with a related list of duties to men, vs. 12.13,
which are summed up, vs. 14, in love as the bond of perfectness.
We also find parallels to ' briefly comprehending in one word ' each
of these fundamental breaches of moraUty, in the summing up the
precepts of all duty to man as 'love,' Rom. 13, 8; Gal. 5, 14; cp.
