introduced from ver. 10, 1 for ipi^uu yXwMu v is there in the singular number, and it is repeated in ver. 30. The want of the connecting particle [the asyndeton] is equivalent to the closing formula, etc., or et cetera.
29. Mj} -rams, are all ? [surely not]) i.e ., not very many are. — duvu/xeig, powers) viz., are all? For if Paul referred the have all ? of ver. 30, to it, he would have expressed it here.
31. ZfjAoSrg, emulously desire) The Spirit gives as He wills, ver. 11 : but yet believers may freely follow out, and engage in, one thing in preference to another, eh. xiv. 26. God’s operations are pleasant, not compulsory. — rot, xpsirrova, the better gifts) ac- cording as each gift is more favourable to love. Theology is comparative : ch. xiv. 5, 19. — g \ri) [ and yet , Engl. Vers.] nay even: so ’in rs xa/, yea even also , Luke xiv. 26. I not only exhort, but also show the method, and the way or plan [the true mode of viewing the subject]. — x«0’ v'7r?pfio\riv) This ex- pression attaches to the noun substantive the force of a super- lative (Pom. vii. 13), as if he were to say, the way most way-like [viam maxime vialem]. — odbv, a way) He does not add the article, keeping the Corinthians somewhat in suspense, while he explains the way: the way of love. — de /xvu/4/, I show )
The present. Paul is now waxing warm, and is carried on to love. When he has made this ‘ showing’ of the way, he returns to the gifts, as the word emulously desire [f^Xovrij repeated in- dicates, here and at ch. xiv. 1.