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may be contemplated from two points of view, either on the side of its positive malignity, its will and power to work mischief, or else on that of its negative worthlessness, and, so to speak, its good-for-nothingness; πονμρός contemplates evil from the former point of view, and φᾶυλος from the latter. There are words in most languages which contemplate evil under this latter aspect, the impossibility of any true gain ever coming forth from it. Thus "nequam" (in strictness opposite to frugi), and "nequitia" in Latin, "vaurien" in French, "naughty" and "naughtiness" in English, taugenichts, "schlecht," schlechligkeit in German. This notion of worthlessness is the central notion of φαῦλος (by some idnetified with "faul," foul), which in Greek runs succesfylly through the following meanings: light, unstable, blown about by every wind, small, slight, mediocre, of no account, worthless, bad; but still bad predominantly in the sense of worthless. Φαῦλος, as used in the New Testament, has reached this latest stage of its meaning; and τα φαῦλα πραξαντας, are set over against τὰ ἀγαθὰ ποιήσαντες and condemned as such to the "resurrection of damnation."

(Archbishop Trench.)

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KJV: Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

WEB: Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,