26. Suffer with it. Compare Plutarch of Solon’s Laws: “Tf any one was beaten or maimed or suffered any violence,
* A number of parallels may be found in Wetstein.
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any man that would and was able might prosecute the wrong- doer ; intending by this to accustom the citizens, like members of the same body, to resent and be sensible of one another’s injuries” (Solon). And Plato: “As in the body, when but a finger is hurt, the whole frame, drawn towards the soul and forming one realm under the ruling power therein, feels the hurt and sympathizes all together with the part affected ” (“‘ Republic,” v., 462).
Is honored (dofdterar). Or glorified. Receives anything which contributes to its soundness or comeliness. So Chrys- ostom: ‘The head is crowned, and all the members have a share in the honor; the eyes laugh when the mouth speaks.”
27. In particular (é« wépous). Rev., better, severally. Hach according to his own place and function. See on part, Rom. xi. 25.
28. Hath set (9ero). See on ver. 18. The middle voice implies for His own use.
Miracles. Note the change from endowed persons to ab- stract gifts, and compare the reverse order, Rom. xii. 6-8.
Helps (avrunsuapers). Rendered to the poor and sick as by the deacons. See on hath holpen, Luke i. 54.
Governments («uBepyjces). Only here in the New Testa- ment. From xuBSepvdo to steer. The kindred «uBepynrns ship- master or steersman, occurs Acts xxvii. 11; Apoc. xviii. 17. Referring probably to administrators of church government, as presbyters. The marginal wise counsels (Rev.) is based on Septuagint usage, as Prov. i.53; xx. 21. Compare Prov. xi. 14; xxiv. 6. Ignatius, in his letter to Polycarp says: “The occasion demands thee, as pilots (ckuBepyyrar) the winds.” The reading is disputed, but the sense seems to be that the crisis demands Polycarp as a pilot. Lightfoot says that this is the earliest example of a simile which was afterward used largely by christian writers—the comparison of the Church to a ship. Hippolytus represents the mast as the cross; the two rudders the two covenants; the undergirding ropes the love of Christ.
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The ship is one of the ornaments which Clement of Alexandria allows a Christian to wear (“‘ Apostolic Fathers,” Part IL., Ig- natius to Polycarp, ii.).
31. The best (ra xpetrrova). The correct reading is ra peiCova the greater. So Rev.
Vet (érz). Some construe with more excellent, rendering yet more excellent. So Rev. Others render moreover, and give the succeeding words a superlative force: “and moreover a most excellent way,” etc. See on with excellency, ch. ii. 1.
Way. To attain the higher gifts. The way of love as de- scribed in ch. xiii. ‘‘ Love is the fairest and best in himself, and the cause of what is fairest and best in all other things ” (Plato, “ Symposium,” 197).