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freedom and boldness with which he ought to preach: ἵνα μοι δοθῇ λόγος ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματος μου ἐν παῤ- ῥησίᾳ, γνωρίσαι, κτλ. Our translators have para- phrased this clause thus, that utterance may be gwen me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known, &e. The literal translation is, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth, with boldness to make known, &c. What Paul desired was divine assistance in preaching. He begs his reader to pray ἵνα μοι δοθῇ λόγος, that the power of speech, or freedom of utter- ance, might be given to him, when he opened his mouth. Paul says, 2 Cor. 11, 6, that he was ἰδιώτης τῷ λόγῳ, rude in speech. The word λόγος itself has at times the metonymical sense here given to it, and therefore ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματος is most naturally taken without emphasis as equivalent to, when 7 open my mouth, i.e. when called upon to speak. Calvin and many others lay the principal stress on those words, and make with opening of the mouth equivalent to with open mouth, pleno ore et intrepida lingua, as Calvin ex- presses it. Os opertum cupit, quod erumpet in liqui- dam et firmam confessionem. Ore enim semiclauso proferuntur ambigua et perplexa responsa. This, how- ever, is to anticipate what is expressed by ἐν παῤῥησίᾳ γνωρίσαι. Others connect both ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματος and ἐν παῤῥησίᾳ with γνωρίσαι, ‘to make known with the opening of the mouth, with boldness the mys- tery, ἄς. This is the construction which our trans- lators seemed to have assumed. But this is very unnatural, from the position of the words and relation