or evil report proceeds from the ignorant and malevolent ; good report from the well-informed in like manner as also the well affected. In proportion as a man has more or less of glory or good report, in the same proportion has he also more or less of either disgrace or infamy respectively. — V. g.] The contraries are elegantly mixed togother. — foaprifiiag, evil report ) If not even the apostles escaped this evil report, who can ask to escape it ? — ug tfXuvoi, as deceivers') men of the deepest infamy. — aXrjOsfg, true) in the opinion of believers, and in reality.
9. 9 Ayvooufisvoi, unknown) [so that we are either quite unknown and neglected , or we are considered altogether different from what we really are. — V. g.] — Gal. i. 22 ; Col. ii. 1. — stf/y/vwo'/co/xsyo/) well known. — 1idov , behold) suddenly and contrary to hope.
10. ’a si) alway , at every time. As often as we had been made sorrowful. — tfXour/fyvrsg, making rich) spiritually. — ^uvra xccrsyg- ovreg [Engl. V. not so well, possessing ], holding fast all things) lest they should be lost to others.
11. To (Tro'/xa, the mouth) A Symperasma,2 by which Paul prepares a way for himself, in order that, from the praise of the gospel ministry, brought down from ii. 14 up to this point, he may derive an exhortation to the Corinthians. — aviwys, is opened) hathjopened itself. There is truly something very extraordinary in this epistle. — KopfvQioi, 0 Corinthians) a rare and very life-like address, expressive, as it were, of some privilege belonging to the Corinthians ; comp. Phil. iv. 15, note. — r\ xapdla, the heart) They ought to have concluded [drawn an inference] from the mouth to the heart [of the apostle]. To be opened and en- larged, are closely connected. — <7rB<7rXdrvvrai, has been enlarged) is diffused [in a widely extended stream of love], 1 Kings iv. 2.9, nb irn, largeness of heart as the sand , that is by the sea- shore.
12. Ov ^rsvo^upzhSs, ye are not straitened) The Indicative. The antithesis is, be ye enlarged [ver. 13]. — h ri/nTv) in us. iv, in its strict sense, in, as at ch. vii. 3. Our heart has sufficient room to take you in. The largeness of Paul’s heart is the same as that of the Corinthians, on account of their spiritual relation-
1’A <7Ft6vviax.ovrts, dying) xi. 23. — V. g.
2 See App. A conclusion or brief summary drawn from the previous premisses.