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 {Pure religion and undefiled} (	hr(8873)keia kathara kai
amiantos). Numerous examples in papyri and inscriptions of
	hr(8873)keia for ritual and reverential worship in the Roman
Empire (Moulton and Milligan's _Vocabulary_; Deissmann, _St.
Paul_, p. 251). As Hort shows, this is not a definition of
religion or religious worship, but only a pertinent illustration
of the right spirit of religion which leads to such acts. {Before
our God and Father} (para t(9369) the(9369) kai patri). By the side of
(para) and so from God's standpoint ( Mr 10:27 ). Amiantos
(compound verbal adjective, alpha privative, miain(935c) to defile),
puts in negative form (cf.  1:4,6 ) the idea in kathara (pure,
clean). This (haut(885c)). Feminine demonstrative pronoun in the
predicate agreeing with 	hr(8873)keia. {To visit}
(episkeptesthai). Epexegetic (explaining haut(885c)) present
middle infinitive of episkeptomai, common verb to go to see, to
inspect, present tense for habit of going to see. See  Mt
25:36,43  for visiting the sick. {The fatherless and widows}
(orphanous kai ch(8872)as). "The natural objects of charity in the
community" (Ropes). Orphanos is old word for bereft of father
or mother or both. In N.T. only here and  Joh 14:18 . Note order
(orphans before widows). {Unspotted} (aspilon). Old adjective
(alpha privative and spilos, spot), spotless. This the more
important of the two illustrations and the hardest to execute.
{To keep} (	(8872)ein). Present active infinitive, "to keep on
keeping oneself un-specked from the world" (a world, kosmos,
full of dirt and slime that bespatters the best of men).

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