princes, warlike leaders, ambassadors, wise men, artists : God will hereafter praise His ministers. - hairrw) to every one , who is a praiseworthy , faithful steward ; you only praise one, for example, Paul. So every one , iii. 8. Concerning praise from God, see Matt. xxv. 21. Those too, who are not faithful, ex- pect praise, but their praise will be reproach. Therefore the contrary is also included by implication in the word praise , which is a euphemism [the opposite of praise being not ex- pressed, though implied] ; so the euphemism in, shall try or prove , etc., c. iii. 13, viii. 8, 10, notes. So blessing also com- prehends cursinq , Gen. xlix. 28, 7. There is a similar passage, 1 Sam. xxvi. 23 (24).
6. T cljto) these things , which are found from c. i. 10 and onward. — ^srsc^^ar/tra, I have transferred ) Comp. 2 Sam. xiv. 20. The figure [Schema] consists in this, that Paul wrote those things with a view to admonish the Corinthians, not only in the second, but chiefly in the first person, ver. 3, 4 : so that the reasons for moderate sentiments [cppovs? &], by which Paul and Apollos were actuated, might also actuate the Corinthians, ver. 16,, and the Corinthians might think of Paul, as Paul thought of himself. — padyire, ye might learn) By this word Paul calms the puffed-up Corinthians. — yeypa^rrai) is written ) Comp, airos, 2 Chron. xxx. 5. Written , i.e. in the whole of Scripture, from which some quotations, iii. 19, 20, have just been made : for we ought not to entertain any sentiment (cppove/v) beside [i.e. in disagreement with] it, and beyond it, Pom. xii. 3, xv. 4. This is our rule in respect to all spiritual sentiments, and we are not allowed to depart from this rule, 2 Cor. x. 13. In Scripture, the archetype of which is in heaven, the general principle in relation to all believers is described, by which the Lord will judge each man, and by which every man ought to look up to Christ alone, and by which each ought to estimate himself, rather than by those gifts, wherein he excels, or thinks he
1 The author has omitted in the Germ. Vers, the verb <; Pgovetv after ykyq>a,'XTa'ii everywhere met with, but left as it were undecided by the margin of both editions. — E. B.
ABD corrected later, G fg Vulg. omit (p^ovelu . Rec. Text reads it, in which it has the support only of C (as is probable, though not certain) of ancient authorities. — Ed.