13. Uspncaddpfjjctra, wepl^rifAu) both words are used for filth , by
which not only men utterly outcast, but those devoted as an ex- piation for others, are denoted. TB3, vepixdOappa dixaiov, dvo^og, the wicked shall he a ransom for the upright , Prov. xxi. -18. rb apyvpiov tfep/^rjfAcc rov nraihtox) ij/xuv ysvo/ro , let money he as refuse in respect of our child , Tob. v. (18) 26 : add Jer. xxii. 28, where HD3 has been translated by some <puu\ov, vile off-
scouring s, Hesychius : ^rspi^rjfia, mpizard/jjay/xa, dvr/Xvrpa, dvri- ^ir^a, % ucrb-rd 7%vt] crdvruv. rr&p/^TjjUoe, in Eustathius is, <$‘Kbyyi<S{Ld Tt, something wiped away with a sponge, and therefore more subtle [smaller and less perceptible] than Xvfia ; the latter word, Xvfia, is a less forcible term than zdGapfia, the meaning of which the mp} strengthens. Wherefore Paul calls himself and the apostles Kzpr/iaddptJjara rov zo^aov—Trsp/^rj^a, the oftscouring not only of a persecuting world , but of all men [Engl. Yers. “ of all things”^, although they do not persecute us ; the world hates us ; all men despise us. — tug dpri , until now) an epanalepsis [a repe- tition of the same words in the beginning of a preceding member and in the end of the following member of a sentence. See Append.], comp. ver. 11, at the beginning.
14. Ovz evrpetfuv, not making ashamed) An exquisite epithe- rapeia.1 * * The dissimilarity between themselves and Paul, be- tween the sons and the father, might have made the Corinthians ashamed. This ’E vrgonri, putting them to shame , in the mind of the apostle, was not an end, but a means, as he says also on another occasion, that he was unwilling to make them sad, though he had actually done so. The apostle often introduces a certain degree of refined pleasantry, without forgetting the apostolic gravity, for example, 2 Cor. xii. 13, note. — vovdsru, I warn) you as a father, Eph. vi. 4.
15. n oudayuyoug, instructors) however evangelical they are, being in Christ , not legal instructors. The antithetical terms respectively are, 6 planting,’ and ‘watering ;’ “laying the founda- tion,” and “ building upon it ‘ begetting’ and c instructing.’ — ov voXXoug, not many) In like manner every regenerate man has not many fathers. Paul does not say, one Father ; for that ap-
1 See App. An after addition to words, which might give offence, and a
kind of softening of what went before by a declaration of friendly feeling
towards the persons addressed.