to his own death, which he bore for [in order to give them] their glorying [ rejoicing , Engl.] comp. iv. 8 ; 2 Cor. iv. 12, 15 ; Phil, i. 26 ; Eph. iii. 13 ; and therefore he brings it forward to stir up the Corinthians themselves. They did not attend to this, who wrote rj/xerspav for vfMrspav.1 The first person indeed follows, fjv but in the singular number ; and qv is to be referred not to v justs pav xav^rjffiv, but to xav^ff/v ; for so relatives are some- times wont to be used, Gal. i. 6, 7 ; Eph. ii. 11 ; where that which is called circumcision is concrete, and there is added, how- ever, in the flesh made by hands , which can only agree with the abstract, 1 Tim. vi. 20, 21 ; 2 Tim. i. 5. Paul shows that it is not without good cause that he dies daily, but that he is a par- taker of the glorying of the Corinthians, 2 Cor. iv. 14.
32. E/ xard avOputfov sdripio^d^va sv’Etpsffu), ri / loi to o£>sXo£ ; u tsxpoi ovx sysipovrai, (pdyujMsv xai ft/w/A tv, aupiov yap aKoOvijaxof/j sv, if after the manner of men , I have fought with wild beasts at Ephe- sus, what advantageth it to me f if the dead rise not , let us eat and drink , for to-morrow we die) This clause, if the dead rise not , is now for a long time properly connected with the words that follow ; for in the foregoing, the formula, after the manner of men , is equivalent to it in force : that is, if, after human fashion, for a human consideration, with the mere hope of the present life, not in the hope of a resurrection to be expected on Divine authority, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, etc. — sHypto/xu^m h ’E psoy, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus) This one con- test Paul expressly mentions, not only because it was a very great one, but also, because it was very recent. He was still at Ephesus ; xvi. 8 : and there, before this epistle was written, he had been exposed to extraordinary danger, which seems to be the same occasion as that described, Acts xix. 29, 30 ; 2 Cor. i. 8 ; wherefore he calls it a fight with wild beasts , in which his life was in jeopardy; comp. iv. 9: as Heraclitus of Ephesus had been in the habit of applying the term wild beasts ,. ^rjpia, to the Ephesians four hundred years before : comp. Tit. i. 12 concern- ing the Cretans and Epimenides. — cpdyujxev — aKoOviiffxo/xiv, let us eat — we die) So the lxx., Isa. xxii. 13, that is, let us use the good things of the body and of the present life. This is a
1 ’Tf&erepciv is the reading BD (A) G fg Vulg. 'Uparipocu is the reading of A, Orig. 2,710a. — Ed.