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20. '2o<puv, of the wise) LXX. have a vdpwruv, of men. The word, thoughts , not in itself, but with this addition, of the wise , corresponds to the Hebrew word JTQ^ntD, Ps. xciv. 11, lxx. — s/07, are) men , namely with their thoughts ; see Ps. now quoted in the Hebrew.
21. ’Ei/ avdpuiKo/g, in men) This appertains to [has the effect of] extenuation.1 — <rai ira, all things) not only all men. — vy>uv, yours) Those things are yours ; not you theirs, i. 12 ; 2 Cor. iv. 5.
22. naDXog, Paul) Paul, as if a stranger to himself, comes forward in the third person and shows how it was the duty of the Corinthians to speak of him, and he places himself, as if he were lowest in rank,2 first in the enumeration. — K Jjpag, Cephas) They were wont to glory also in Peter, which also was wrong. See note on i. 12. — xoV/aos, the world) He by a sudden bound extends his remarks from Peter to the whole world, as if he were in some degree impatient of enumerating all the other things. Peter and every one else in the whole world, how dis- tinguished soever he may be by his talents, gifts, or office whether ecclesiastical or political, all are yours ; they are instru- mental in promoting your interests, even though unwittingly : comp, respecting, the world , ver. 19, iv. 9, vi. 2, vii. 31 ; Rom. iv. 13 ; Gal. iv. 3. — g/Vg g/Vg Oavarog, whether life or death) and so therefore the living and the dead. Comp. Rom. xiv. 8 ; Phil. i. 21. — evstfruru, things present) on the earth. — //iXXovra, things to come) in heaven.
23. 'T>g% hs XpKfrou, and ye are Christ's) Immediately; not by the intervention of Peter. — Xpntrov — ©g o£J, of Christ — of God) To this iv. 1 has respect. — Xpiarhg 3s, ©goo, and Christ is God's) xv. 28 ; Luke ix. 20.
1 See App., under the tit. Litotes. Using a weaker expression, when a strong one is meant. — T.
2 In Greek and Latin, a person speaking of himself along with another, puts himself first, in modern languages last. Christ says, more than once, I and the Father : so here, Paul is first as being of least importance. — T.
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