2 Corinthians 6:15

And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
&c.] The word "Belial" is an Hebrew word, and is only used in this place in the New Testament, but often in the Old; this word is differently read and pronounced, some copies read it "Beliar", and accordingly in the Ethiopic version it is "Belhor", and by Jerom read ^F9 Belvir"; but he observes, that it is more rightly called Belial": in some copies it is "Belias", and so Tertullian ^F11 read it; and Jerom ^F12 says, that most corruptly read it "Belias", for "Belial": some derive it from (ylb) , "Beli", and (hle) , "Alah", and signifies "without ascent"; one in a very low condition, of low life, that never rises up, and comes to any thing; to which Kimchi's etymology of the word seems to agree, who says {m}, that Belial is a wicked man, (xyluy lbw hley lb) , "who does not succeed, and does not prosper": others say it signifies ^F14 one that is (lwe ylb) , "Beli Ol, without a yoke", without the yoke of the law; so Jarchi explains children of Belial, in ( Deuteronomy 13:13 ) without yoke, who break off the yoke of God; and so say ^F15 the Talmudists,

``children of Belial, are children that break off (Mymv lwe) , "the yoke of heaven" (i.e. the law) from their necks;''

or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
such have no part, and shall have no part or portion in one and the same thing; the believer's part and portion are God, Christ, and an eternal inheritance; the unbeliever's part and portion will be in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; and therefore what part, society, or communion, can they have with one another?

F9 De Nominibus Hebraicis, fol. 106. K.
F11 De Corona, c. 10.
F12 Comment. in Ephes. iv. 27.
F13 Sepher Shorashim, rad. (lb) .
F14 Hieronym Quaestasive Trad. Heb. in Lib. Reg. fol. 74. I. Tom. 3. & in Ephes. iv. 27. R. Abraham Seba in Tzeror Hammor, fol. 141. 4. & 142. 2.
F15 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 111. 2.
F16 Philip Aquinas, Schindler, Cocceius
F17 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 148. 3. & 149. 2.