ἡ δὲ σπαταλῶσα κ.τ.λ., but she (i.e. the widow) that liveth riotously is dead while she liveth. σπαταλᾷν only occurs in N.T. here and at James 5:5; cp. Ezekiel 16:49 (where it is used of one of the sins of Sodom and her daughters) and Sir 21:15.

The conception of spiritual death, of death in life, is frequent in St Paul; see Romans 7:10; Romans 7:24; Ephesians 4:18, and cp. Revelation 3:1 where it is said of the Church of Sardis … ὅτι ζῇς καὶ νεκρὸς εἶ.

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