I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
Without hastiness of judgment (109). The Greek wordπροκρίμα, to translate it literally, answers to the Latin word proejudicium , “ a judgment beforehand.” But it rather denotes excessive haste, (110) as when we pronounce a decision at random, without having fully examined the matter; or it denotes immoderate favor, when we render to persons more than is proper, or prefer some persons as being more excellent than others; which, in the decisions of a judge, is always unjust. Paul, therefore, condemns here either levity or acceptance of persons. 