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19. ‘'h) a particle denoting the second part of a disjunctive interrogation. The expression, his own , ver. 18, is in this ver. sweetly limited. Our body is so constituted, as that it may be the temple of God, i.e. His peculiar and perpetual habitation. — rov ev ifi/v, which is in you) This expression assigns the reason [aetiology. — See Append.]. The Holy Spirit is in you ; there- fore you are His temple. — c|y) whom , the Spirit. — %a i ovk ear's euuruv, and ye are not your own ) This appropriately follows, but yet it is connected more closely with, ye are bought , and in its construction, it also depends on or/, because.
20. ’h yopuafyre, ye are bought) You are entirely in the power of another. To sell is used for to alienate ; to buy for to claim for one's self and here too with propriety ; for the mention of a price is added. — r///^g, with a price) This word has thus much greater force, than if an epithet were added. So also vii. 23. — dogdaare, glorify) An Epiphonema [an exclamation sub- joined to a weighty argument. — Appen.] They are in error, who think that God should be only internally, or only externally worshipped. — h rip au/uun vpuvy1 in your body) Rom. xii. i. ; Phil, i. 20.
1. He pi de m 'ey pu^ccre. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote) He sets before us his subject at the first with elegance, rather generally than particularly. The apostles in their epistles often treat of marriage ; the apostle Paul alone, once and not of his own accord, but when he was asked, advises celibacy, and that
1 The words which follow to the end of this clause, are declared by the margin of both Ed. as a reading not genuine ; wherefore, also, in the German Vers., they are only within a parenthesis. Not. Crit. on this passage agrees to it : vpt,Z)v, rrepi) a sure reading ; the question here is about the use and abuse of the body. — E. B.
Rec. Text adds x.ctl ev rw rrvevpcotn vpZv cLrtvoc. soriv rov Qeov. Both Syr. Vers, alone of the oldest authorities support this reading. But ABC cor- rected later, D corr. lat., G Vulg./^rTren. Cypr. Lucif. Memph. omit the words. — Ed.
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