“For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.”
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil. — Hē gar hypakoē hymon (your obedience) eis pantas anthrōpous apēlthen (has reached all people). Hypakoē (obedience, hearing-toward) is public knowledge. Yet Paul urges: sophoi (wise) eis to agathon (toward good) and akaios (innocent, guileless) eis to kakon (toward evil). Astuteness about good combined with naiveté about evil.
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