By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
Ver. 6. By pureness] By lamb-like simplicity or sincerity. Religion loves to lie clean, said one. Godliness must run through our whole lives as the woof doth through the web. See Isaiah 33:14. No gold or precious stone is so pure as the prudent mind of a pious man, said divine Plato. ουτε χρυσος, ουτε αδαμας ουτως αστραπτει ωσπερ αγαθων ανδρων νοος συμφραδμων ~