113 Gk. ϰεϰαυστηϱɩασμένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησɩν.
111The Gentiles walk, it is said, ἐν ματαɩóτητɩ τοῦ νοòς αὐτῶν. (This is a more specific ματαɩóτης than that to which, according to Rom. 8:20, creation as a whole was made subject.) In 1 Pet. 1:18 (in a similar paraenesis to this) converted pagans are said to have been redeemed from the futile way of life which they had inherited (ἐϰ τῆς ματαίας ὑμῶν ἀναστϱοφῆς πατϱοπαϱαδóτον); both there and here μάταɩος/ματαɩóτης may have much the same force as in Acts 14:15, where the pagans of Lystra are urged to turn “from these futilities” (ἀπò τούτων τῶν ματαίων) to serve the living God (cf. 1 Thess. 1:9-10).
112Gk. πώϱωσɩς, as in Mark 3:5; Rom. 11:25 (the verb πωϱóω is similarly used in Mark 6:42; 8:17; John 12:40; Rom. 11:7; 2 Cor. 3:14). The noun πῶϱος is used of a light kind of stone, and then of various stony formations in the joints, bladder, or other parts of the body.
113Gk. ϰεϰαυστηϱɩασμένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησɩν.