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Sacer, p. 396, 392, 393.— 'xstpanpuftsda, we are made manifest ) we show and bear ourselves as persons manifest [to God and in your consciences]. Those, who have this character, may be made manifest without terror in the judgment, \_<pa\ npud^vai], ver. 10. — I hope) To have been made manifest is past,
whereas hope refers to a thing future. Paul either hopes for the fruit of the manifestation , which has been already made ; or else hopes, that the manifestation itself will still take place. — Guviidrjfcffiv, in your consciences) The plural gives greater weight. \It sometimes happens , that a man may he made manifest to the conscience even of such , as attempt to conceal the fact .
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12. Tap, for) The reason assigned [aetiologia], why he leaves it to the conscience of the Corinthians to form their opinion. — didovrsg, giving) supply we write , or a similar general verb, the meaning of which is included in the particular expression, we commend . There is a participle of a similar kind, vii. 5— xi. 6. He says, we furnish you with arguments for glorying in our be- half.— ytauyf[Marog, glorying) with regard to our sincerity ; so far am I from thinking, that there is after all need of any commen- dation of us. — s^rs, you may have) repeat, occasion. — h Kpovuinu). xu i ou xapbicc, in appearance ; and not in heart) The same antithesis is found at 1 Sam. xvi. 7, lxx., and in a different manner in 1 Thess. ii. 17. — xapbiu, in heart) such was Paul’s disposition [vein] of mind — truth shone from his heart to the consciences of the Corinthians.
13. E/Vs sgsrrr^asi/ sits guppovoZ/isv) The former is treated of ver. 15-21 : — the latter vi. 1—10. The force of the one word is evident from the other, to act without or with moderation. Paul might seem to be without moderation from the Symperasma,1 which he gave in the preceding verse [ namely , adorning his office with so many encominiums. — V. g.] — Osti, it is to God) viz., that we have acted without moderation , although men do not under- stand us. — l[u v, it is to you) Even godly men bear the moderation of their teachers with a more favourable feeling, than their sxffraGig, excessive enthusiasm; but it is their duty to obey the Spirit.
1 See App. A brief and summary conclusion from the previous premisses. — T.
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