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Apostle evidently means) quite compatible with 

 love growing to perfection, can have no mixture of 

 vengeance, but must be purely disciplinary and cor- 

 rective. When thus we see that KoAao-is in its ety- 

 mology, and generally in classical Greek, means not 

 vengeance but correction or chastisement, and that 

 in one of the two places where it occurs in the New 

 Testament it unquestionably retains its original 

 meaning, it appears all but certain that in the other 

 place its meaning must be the same. 



It appears, then, that the true meaning of KoAao-is 

 atowos is "agelong chastisement." This is strongly 

 confirmed by another remarkable choice of words in 

 the passage under consideration. It begins as 

 follows, quoting from the Revised Version, and 

 adopting the marginal readings : " When the Son of 

 Man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with 

 him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory ; 

 and before him shall be gathered all the nations : 

 and he shall separate them one from another, as a 

 shepherd separateth the sheep from the kids ; and 

 he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the 

 kids on the left." Goats, like sheep, are clean 

 beasts, and both are in the flock ; the goats are only 

 less dear than the sheep to the Shepherd ; and if 

 Our Lord, who elsewhere calls Himself the Good 

 Shepherd, 1 had regarded the condemned as fit for 

 nothing but burning, He would have called them by 



some such name as wolves, or swine, or vipers. But 



^-vf \BRAPv 

 1 John x. 14. See alsfe x"v, 3-7 ; aW Matt, xviii. 12. 



