that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. That no man overreach, nor deceive his brother in business. [1] The Prot. and Mr. N. even in their translations, add, in any matter, because some expound it of frauds and circumventions in any kind of business. But this addition of any, should be left out, seeing the best interpreters expound it of a prohibition of adultery, and the injury thereby done to another, and of sins of that kind only, which is confirmed by what follows and what goes before. See S. Jerom in c. iv. ad Ephes. tom. 4. p. 369. Saint John Chrysostom serm. 3 on this place. Here, says he, he speaks of adultery, as before of fornication, and so forth See Theodoret, Theophylact. Estius, Menochius, A. Lapide, and so forth Witham.