NOTE. On passages of difficult and unsettled application, those who write will be considered alone responsible for the correctness of the sentiments they utter. We think the above exposition preferable to that which would make Paul desire a private translation like Enoch and Elijah. The translation mentioned in the post-script is given with a freedom which we fail to see sustained by the Greek. The verb analuo, rendered "to depart," is defined, to dissolve, to break up, to separate. The only other instance of its occurrence in the New Testament is rendered thus: [Luke xii, 36.] "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord when he will return (analusei) from the wedding. But again, the noun analusis derived from the verb, is rendered "departure" in the only instance of its occurrence in the N. T. viz., 2 Tim. iv, 6, where there can be no doubt as to the meaning it is intended to convey.—Ed.