Robbery

"Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and" "Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem (Judg. 9:25. See" also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea "in our Lord's time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts 5:36, 37;" "21:38; 2 Cor. 11:26). The words of the Authorized Version," "counted it not robbery to be equal, etc. (Phil. 2:6, 7), are" "better rendered in the Revised Version, "counted it not a prize" "to be on an equality," etc., i.e., "did not look upon equality" "with God as a prize which must not slip from his grasp" = "did" not cling with avidity to the prerogatives of his divine "majesty; did not ambitiously display his equality with God." "Robbers of churches should be rendered, as in the Revised "Version, "of temples." In the temple at Ephesus there was a" "great treasure-chamber, and as all that was laid up there was" "under the guardianship of the goddess Diana, to steal from such" a place would be sacrilege (Acts 19:37).