sistent with one another, of which the various transpositions are noticed in the Apparatus } W e shall now explain some of these words in particular. — g/Vs, whether ) sometimes we are more sen- sible of adversities, sometimes of consolation. — u/xwi/, your ) The communion of saints, cultivated in the heart of Paul, Titus, the Corinthians, and other Churches, is admirably represented in this epistle, ii. 3, iv. 15, vi. 12, vii. 7, 13, ix. 12. These hearts were, so to speak, mirrors reflecting the likenesses of each other ; comp. Phil, ii. 26, 27. — •7rapoLx\7)<szo)$, consolation ) in the soul. — eu rripfus, salvation ) in fact [in reality]. — rrj g evepyou/uevris) in the Middle voice, iv. 12; Pom. vii. 5. — tojv avruv) the same , in point of number. The adversities [sufferings] of Paul were the same as those of the Corinthians, who were in the heart of Paul : vi. 12 ; and the fruit of those sufferings redounded to their advantage, although they [the sufferings] had prevented him from coming to Corinth. A mutual participation [in suffer- ings and consolation] is declared. — ^ao^o/Agy, xai n eXnig, we suffer , and the hope) Hope is usually joined with the mention of afflic- tions and patience, ver. 10 ; Pom. v. 3, 4, xv. 4. — /3g/3a/ a, is stedfast) It obtained stedfastness through adversity.
8. ’Ev rfi ’Aria, in Asia) 1 Cor. xv. 32, note. The Corinthians were not ignorant of that affliction, which had befallen him in Asia ; but Paul now declares its magnitude and its advantageous result. [The whole epistle presents a journal of his travels ; hut most excellent precepts are interwoven with the narrative oj them. — M. g.] — uvsp bvvafMv) above ordinary strength . — l^awopriOiivai, that we despaired) He affirms here, what he denies in another respect, iv. 8 ; for he is speaking here of human, there of Divine assistance.
9. 1 * * * 5 AXXa, hut) i.e. nay; supply, for this reason we ourselves , etc. ; that not , etc. — r'o avoxpiiaa) Hesychius says, d'xoxpifia, xara- xpi'xa, -v^Sj^ov. aKoxpfvsiv, to pass sentence on one condemned , to consider him as dead. The antithesis is trusting. Simon ius takes a different view. — aXX’ It/, hut in) illustrating the wonder-
1 BD (A) Gfg Syr. later, place sire 'jca,pctxtthw(xi6ct uwep rvjs vpcuv nupuK-
hvjascos Kdl ouTYipiocg after V7csp Cpcav, and before elhoreg. AC Vulg. Syr.
Memph. omit x.ctl aurnpiug, (Many MSS. of Vulg. have the et Salute ), and
place the rest of the words before rij? h/tpyov/xtuYig. Rec. Text without good
authority, places the words before xcd q fanlg. — Ed.