16. Na bg, the temple ) The most noble kind of building. — hrs,
ye are) the whole of you together. — rb the Spirit) The
indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and that of God, are held in the same estimation [are equivalent] : therefore the high honour due to the Holy Spirit is the same as that due to God, vi. 19.
17. <J>0g/fg/, destroys ] by schisms according to the wisdom of the world. — cpkpsT, shall destroy ) by a most righteous retaliation in kind [(pOsps? answering to (pOtipsi]. There are many punish- ments, which do not flow from sin by physical connection. — dyiog, holy) divine, inviolable.
18. Aoxsf) This word is frequently used, as well as Xoy/^a/, in the epistles to the Corinthians ; but doxu more in the first ; the other, with a milder signification in the second. The mean- ing here is, if any man be wise, and think that he is so. For often, in this epistle especially, doxu has such a force as that the fact of the thing itself is not denied, but there is denoted along with the fact, the estimation, which the man, who has that thing [that subject of his self-esteem], entertains concerning himself, whether [that estimation] be just or inflated [exaggerated] vii. 40, viii. 2, x. 12, xi. 16, xiv. 37. — <so<pbg , wise) Hereby he entirely cuts off all wisdom, whether of this world or divine. [It is indeed wretched wisdom to deceive one’s own self. — V. g.] For in whatever species of wisdom every man wishes to be distin- guished, in the same kind of wisdom he ought first of all to deem himself a fool, that he may become wise.
19. ' O dpaffffo/usvog rovg tfopovg sv rfj <rai iovpyia avrwv) Eliphaz in Job V. 13, in the LXX., says, 6 xccra'kGCfifidvwv tocpovg sv rfj (ppovijorsi. The apostles seem to have kept very much by the words of the lxx. Interpreters in passages very well known to the Hellenists [the Greek-speaking Jews], for example in the Parschijoth1 and Haphtaroth, and likewise in the Psalms ; but they have re- course to the Hebrew, in passages less generally used, such as this passage of J ob. Paul has also in another place referred to Job. See Phil. i. 19, note. — sv , in) not only whilst they think that they are acting wisely, but in such a way, that their very wisdom is a snare to them.
1 Parschijoth, sections of the Pentateuch ; Haphtaroth, sections of the Prophets, read publicly. — T.