9. That I may not seem. The construction is abrupt. Prob- ably something is to be supplied, as J say this in order that I may not seem, etc.
10. They say (gaciv). The correct reading is dyad says he. The Revisers retain they say, but read dnoi he says in their text. The reference is to some well-known opponent. Compare one, any one in ch.x. 7; xi. 20. The only instance of the very words used by Paul’s adversaries.
Weighty (Sapetar). In classical Greek, besides the physical sense of heavy, the word very generally implies something pain- ful or oppresswe. As applied to persons, severe, stern. In later Greek it has sometimes the meaning of grave or dignified, and by the later Greek rhetoricians it was applied to oratory, in the sense of ¢mpressive, as here.
Weak. “No one can even cursorily read St. Paul’s epistles without observing that he was aware of something in his aspect or his personality which distressed him with an agony of humili- ation—something which seems to force him, against every nat- ural instinct of his disposition, into language which sounds to himself like a boastfulness which was abhorrent to him, but which he finds to be more necessary to himself than to other men. It is as though he felt that his appearance was against him. . . . His language leaves on us the impression of one who was acutely sensitive, and whose sensitiveness of temper-
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ament has been aggravated by a meanness of presence which is indeed forgotten by the friends who know him, but which raises in strangers a prejudice not always overcome” (Farrar).
Bodily presence. All the traditions as to Paui’s personal appearance are late. A bronze medal discovered in the ceme- tery of St. Domitilla at Rome, and ascribed to the first or sec- ond century, represents the apostle with a bald, round, well- developed head; rather long, curling beard; high forehead ; prominent nose; and open, staring eye. The intellectual char- acter of the face is emphasized by the contrast with the por- trait of Peter, which faces Paul’s. Peter’s forehead is flat, the head not so finely developed, the face commonplace, the cheek-bones high, the eye small, and the hair and beard short, thick, and curling. An ivory diptych of the fourth century, reproduced in Mr. Lewin’s “Life of Paul,” contains two por- traits. In the one he is sitting in an official chair, with uplifted hand and two fingers raised, apparently in the act of ordina- tion. The face is oval, the beard long and pointed, the mous- tache full, the forehead high, the head bald, and the eyes small and weak. The other portrait represents him in the act of throwing off the viper. A forgery of the fourth century, under the name of Lucian, alludes to him as “ the bald-headed, hook- nosed Galilean.” In the “ Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles” mention is made of one Dioscorus, the bald shipmaster, who followed Paul to Rome, and was mistaken for him and _ be- headed in his stead. In the “Acts of Paul and Thekla,” a third-century romance, he is described as “short, bald, bow- legged, with meeting eyebrows, hook-nosed, full of grace.” John of Antioch, in the sixth century, says that he was round- shouldered, with aquiline nose, greyish eyes, meeting eye- brows, and ample beard.*
Contemptible (efoudIevnuévos). Lit., made nothing of. Rev., of no account.
* See Mrs. Jameson’s “Sacred and Legendary Art,” vol. i.; and Northcote and Brownlow’s ‘Roma Sotteranea.” A summary is given by Farrar.
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12. Make ourselves of the number (éy«pivay éavtovs). Rev., better, to number ourselves. Lit., to judge ourselves to be among : to place in the same category with.
13. Of things without measure (eis Ta duetpa). OF things is wrong; the translators failing to see that the article forms, with the following word, an adverbial phrase. Rev., cor- rectly, glory beyond our measure.