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vi. 15. He, who sees the Son, sees the Father, in the face of Christ. The Son exactly represents and reflects the Father.
5. Ou, not) We do not commend ourselves, iii. 1 ; although they who perish think so. — yap, for ) The fault of their blindness does not lie at our door. — Kvp/ov, douXovg, the Lord; servants) An antithesis : we do not preach ourselves as masters ; comp. i. 24. — dovXoug bfiuv, your servants) Hence Paul is accustomed to pre- fer the Corinthians to himself, ver. 12, 13. — d/a ’irjtouv, for Jesus ’ sake) The majesty of Christians is derived from Him.
6. "Or/, because) He proves, that they were true servants. — 6 Qsbg, God) God — to shine , constitutes the subject ; then by sup- plying is (as in Acts iv. 24, 25) the predicate follows, [is He] who hath shone. — o s/Vwy, He who spake the word) who com- manded by a word LXX., s/Vsv, Gen. i. 3. — lx axorovg (pug, light out of darkness) LXX., Job xxxvii. 15, (pug voiri/fag lx <r norovg. A great work. — sXa/u^ev, hath shone) Himself our Light ; not only the author of light, but also its fountain, and Sun. — xapdla/g , in our hearts ) in themselves dark. — sv kpoguku1 ’i vj/rou Xpurrou, in the face of Jesus Christ) Who is the only begotten of the Father and His image, and was manifested in the flesh with His glory.
7. Tov Oriaavpov rovrov , this treasure) described from [beginning with] ii. 14. He now shows, that affliction and death itself, so far from obstructing the ministry of the Spirit, even aid it, and sharpen ministers and increase their fruit. — barpanm/g, earthen) The ancients kept their treasure in jars , or vessels. There are earthen vessels, which yet may be clean ; on the contrary a gQlden vessel may be filthy. — <rxcbs(f/v, vessels) It is thus he calls the body, or the flesh, which is subject to affliction and death ; see the following verses. — r\ bnepfioXfi r%g duvd/ieug, the excellency of the power) which, consisting as it does in the treasure, exerts itself in us, while we are being saved, and in you, while you are being enriched; ver. 10, 11. — f, may be) may be acknowledged
1 Both the margin of the 2d Ed. and the Germ. Yer. hint that the name Tjfo-oS is a doubtful reading ; and the same may be said of the reading rou Kvp/ov, ver. 10. — E. B.
AB Orig. 1,632/ omit '\naov. But C Orig. 4, 448c have it before Xp/orov ; and D(A)G/<7 "Yulg. have it after Xp/oTov. ABCDG// Vulg. Orig. Iren, omit Kvp/ov in ver. 10. It is supported only by some later uncial MSS. and later S)-r., etc. — Ed.
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