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xi.xvii.ii-p51.3

xi.xvii.ii-p51.359 words

11. mouths … stopped—literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare Ps 32:9).

whoGreek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [Ellicott].

subvert … houses—"overthrowing" their "faith" (2Ti 2:18). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [Theophylact].

for filthy lucre—(1Ti 3:3, 8; 6:5).