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(ἀνεπαίσχυντος) is a rare formation, which occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Its precise meaning is not quite certain. The more simple and frequent form (ἀναίσχυντος) means
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_i.e._, one who does not feel shame when he ought to do so. Such a meaning, if taken literally, would be utterly unsuitable here. And we then have choice of two interpretations, either (1) that which is adopted in both A. V. and R. V., who _need_ not feel shame, because his work will bear examination, or (2) who _does_ not feel shame, although his work is of a kind which the world holds in contempt. The latter is the interpretation which Chrysostom adopts, and there is much to be said in its favour. Three times already in this letter has the Apostle spoken of not being ashamed of the Gospel. He says
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Be not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. Again,
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I suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed. And again of Onesiphorus,
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He oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain (i. 8, 12, 16). Does he not, therefore, mean here also,
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Present thyself to God as a workman who is not ashamed of being in His service and of doing whatever work may be assigned to him ? This brings us very close to what would be the natural meaning of the word, according to the analogy of the simpler form.
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If you are to work for God, says Paul,
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The _vox populi_, even when taken in its most comprehensive sense, is anything but an infallible guide. Public opinion is nearly always against the worst forms of selfishness, dishonesty, and sensuality; and to set it at defiance in such matters is to be
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in the worst sense. But sometimes public opinion is very decidedly against some of the noblest types of holiness; and to be
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under such circumstances is a necessary qualification for doing one's duty. It is by no means certain that this is not St. Paul's meaning. If we translate,
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A workman that feeleth no shame,
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Handling aright the word of truth, or
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Rightly dividing the word of truth. There is some doubt here also as to the explanation of the word rendered
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or
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(ὀρθοτομεῖν). Once more we have a word which occurs nowhere else in New Testament. Its radical meaning is to
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or
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especially of driving a straight road through a district, or a straight furrow across a field. In the LXX. it is twice used of making straight or directing a person's path.
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In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths; and
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The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way (Prov. iii. 6; xi. 5). The idea of rightness seems to be the dominant one; that of cutting quite secondary; so that the Revisers are quite justified in following the example of the Vulgate (_recte tractantem_), and translating simply
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But this right handling may be understood as consisting in seeing that the word of truth moves in the right direction and progresses in the congregation by a legitimate development. The word, therefore, excludes all fanciful and perilous deviations and evasions, such as those in which the false teachers indulged, and all those