Amemptwv unblameably, only in these Epistles . For the distinction between osiov and dikaiov see Plato, Gorg. The A.V. renders the three participles in this verse as finite verbs, we exhorted, etc. Rev. retains the participial construction. Better than comforted , persuading.
Persuasion is the form which the exhortation assumed.
Paraklhsiv exhortation, and paramuqiou persuasion, are associated in Philip. The verb paramuqeomai, to persuade occurs only four times in N.T. See on Philip. The verb means to conjure, or appeal to by something sacred . By Paul exclusively in the metaphorical sense of behaving or conducting one's self. Similarly in Hebrews.