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Among you (év péow tuedv). Better, and more literally, in the midst of you, which implies more intimate intercourse than among you. Comp. L. xxii. 27.
Nurse (tpodgds). N.T.°. In Class. sometimes of a mother, and so probably here. See Gal. iv. 19.
Cherisheth (@dd7n). P°. Here and Eph. v. 29. The verb originally means to warm. See LXX, Deut. xxii. 6.
Her own children. Note the inversion of metaphor. Paul is first the babe, then the nurse or mother. For similar instances see ch. v. 2,4; 2 Cor. iii. 18-16; Rom. vii. 1 ff. See Introduction to 2 Cor., Vol. III., p. xix.
8. Being affectionately desirous (opepouevor). N. T.°. Once in LXX, Jobiii. 21. The figure of the nursing mother is continued. She is not satisfied with nursing the child, but interests herself affectionately in all that concerns it.
We were willing (jddoxotpev). Better, we were pleased. Imperfect tense: we continued to entertain and manifest our affectionate solicitude. The verb occasionally in later Greek, and often in LXX. InN. T. it is used of God’s decrees, as Peo oe et Cor. 1, 2b: Gal. 1. lo: Col. 1. 19; and of. the free determination and plans of men, as Rom. xv. 26; 2 Cor. Vere Lod ie. 112.51.
Souls (apuyds). Better lives. See on Rom. xi. 8; 1 Cor. xv. 45; Mk. xii. 30.
9. Labour—travail (xévov— poyOov). The two words are associated in 2 Cor. xi. 27; 2 Th. iii. 8. Moy@os travail, P°. Frequent in LXX. Kézos emphasises fatigue, udyOos hard- ship.
Because we would not be chargeable (apos 70 pa) ér- Bapjoa). Incorrect. Rend. that we might not burden. Put you to expense for our support. Comp. 2 Th. iil. 8.
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10. Holily — justly — unblameably (dalws — dixaiws — dpéumtas). For dclas holily, see on L. i. 75; for dimatws justly or righteously, on Rom. i. 17; v. 7. “Apéumrras un- blameably, only in these Epistles. See ch. iii. 18; v. 23. For the distinction between écv0s and Sixatos, see Plato, Gorg. 507.
11. Comforted (vapapvOovpevor). The A. V. renders the three participles in this verse as finite verbs, we exhorted, etc. Rev. retains the participial construction. Better than com- forted, persuading. Persuasion is the form which the ex- hortation assumed. TlapdxAnows exhortation, and tapapv@.ov persuasion, are associated in Philip. i. 1. The verb wapa- pvbéoua to persuade occurs only four times in N. T. See on Philip. ii. 1. Neither verb nor noun in LXX.
Charged (uaptupépuevot). Rev. testifying; but the A.V. is more correct. Rend. charging. ‘The verb means to conjure, or appeal to by something sacred. So Eph. iv. 17. Comp. Acts xx. 26; Gal. v. 3, and Svapaptipouar I charge, 1 Tim. v.21; 2°Tim.ii. 143°iv.1) Comp. thucyd. vi. 80,
12. Walk (vepirateitv). By Paul exclusively in the meta- phorical sense of behaving or conducting one’s self. Similarly in Hebrews. In the Synoptic Gospels, with one exception (Mk. vil. 5), of the physical act. Both senses in the Fourth Gospel, but only the metaphorical sense in John’s Epistles. Once in the metaphorical sense in Acts, xxi. 21. In LXX almost exclusively literal; but see 2 K. xx. 23; Prov. viii. 20; Eccl. xi. 9. The phrase a&ls trepurrateiv to walk worthily, in Eph. ives“ Col. si. 0;
Worthy of God (aEias Geod). Better worthily. For aflas comp. LXX, Wisd. vii. 15; xvi. 1; Sir. xiv. 11. The for- mula a&/s Oeod is: found among the Pergamum papyri. A priest of Dionysus is described as having performed his sacred duties a&iws Oeod. A priestess of Athene as having served a€ios Tis Oeod Kal ris watpisos worthily of the goddess and of
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her fatherland. A chief herdsman as having conducted the divine mysteries a&/ws tod cabnyeudvos Atovicou worthily of his chief, Dionysus. The dates of these papyri are from 141 B.c. to the beginning of the first century a.D.*