... you show no favor to anyone. Literally, “you do not lift up the face,” a Septuagintism, meaning that he shows no favoritism or partiality. This too prepares for the two-pronged pronouncement to come. The Greek phrase prosōpon lambanein would have been unintelligible in classical or Hellenistic Greek writing, where the verb lambanein means either (actively) “take, take hold of” or (receptively) “accept,” and never has the sense of “raise, lift up.” This meaning is found in the Septuagint as a translation of nāśāʼ pānîm. See page 115. It gave rise to the noun prosōpolēmptēs (Acts 10:34), God is no “respecter of persons,” that is, one who, when greeted by a person bowed in prostration, lifts up the face of the person as a sign of recognition, favor, or esteem. ...