The Syriac word here rendered not merely formal is one which stems to take no other meaning than ‘inexpiable’—a sense scarcely admissible in this place. The Greek was probably ἀγαπὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀχώριστον καὶ οὐκ ἀφοσιουμένην. This supposition would account for the Syriac misapprehension of the word.