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excels, others (Luke x. 20.) [Add, that Scripture ascribes glory to God alone ; to man no glory whatever, i. 31 : and there- fore human glorying is contrary to Scripture and its universal feeling (sentiments), Luke xvi. 15—18, 29 ; Is. lxvi. 2. — V. g.] In accordance with this is the expression presently after, one [puffed up] for one. In this manner all good and bad men (Jude, ver. 4) have long ago been respectively distinguished in Scripture. — sis v*'sp rov Was, one for the one) The definition of a sect, where individuals admire and follow individuals. The article rou adds emphasis. A single minister is not the only one. — (pvaiouck ) The subjunctive, for (pvdiuak, as fyXovrs for fyXure, Gal. iv. 17. But that is an irregular form of the sub- junctive, which some call the indicative. The mode of contraction is singular. For it is not credible, that, in these verbs only, the indicative is put for the subjunctive. — eregov, another) for example against Apollos.
7. T is) who ? not thou, not another man ; but even suppos- ing thou hast some excellent gift, it is God alone [who maketh thee to differ]. — cz, thee) This word may be referred both to some one at Corinth and, by changing the figure of speech [cyfi^a referring to [AtTSd%ri[tariticc\, to Paul : as, thee, thyself, how great soever thou art : in antithesis to the gifts, which thou mayest or mayest not have received. — hiaxphu, makes to differ) or, pecu- liarly distinguishes by some difference. — ri d's sjsis, o oux zXafizg, but what hast thou, which thou hast not received ?) The meaning is : whatever thou hast, thou hast received it, not from thyself, but from God : or, there are many things, which thou hast not received, and therefore thou hast them not and canst not boast of them : either thou hast, or hast not received; if thou hast not received, thou hast them not : if thou hast received, thou hast nothing but what has been received, without any cause for glorying. He, whom Paul here addresses, is a man ; for example, Paul, whose way of thinking the Corinthians ought to take as a pattern. The latter sense renders the meaning of the xal, even, which immediately follows, more express, and shows the antanaclasis1 in thou hast not received : [as if] not receiving. — &s M Xoc,(3uv, as if thou hadst not received it) as if thou hast it from thyself.
1 See App. The same word in the same context twice, but in a different sense.