and in the tenth and following chapter. — Y\fidg) us, who love you and rejoice for your sake, receive also with favour our feel- ings, words, and actions. — ovd'sva yibixqaaftsv, ovd'sv a stpQsipa/xev, ovd'sva evheovexT/ioa^ev) He lays down three things by gradation, the first of which he treats from ver. 4, by repeating the very word ddi- xs Tv, at ver. 12 ; the second from ch. x. 1, by repeating the very word <pdsipsiv, at ch. xi. 3 ; the third from ch. xii. 13, by repeat- ing the very word *7 rXeovsxrs/v, ib. ver. 17. I have marked how- ever the beginning of the paragraph at ver. 11 of the chapter quoted. The point of transition [to the discussion of grXsovsxrsTv] may be referred to what goes before or to what follows after ver. 11 [i.e., maybe fixed in the context before or after ver. 11]. The discussion of the clause itself, ovd'sva snXsovsxrijffa/xsv begins at ver. 13. This then is what he means to say : There is no rea-
son, why you should not receive us [favourably : capiatis\ : for we have injured no man, by our severity producing an absorbing grief [referring to ch. ii. 7, u lest such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow”]; nay, -we have not even made a man worse by a too haughty mode of acting : nay, we have not even defrauded any man for gain ; in everything we have consulted you and your interests : comp. ver. 9 ; and that too, without any reward. Whilst he declares, that he had been the occasion of no evil to the Corinthians, he intimates, that he had done them good, but very modestly keeps it as it were out of sight.
3. Ov Kpog xardxpnnv, not \_for condemnation ] to condemn you) He shows that he does not say, what he has said at ver. 2, be- cause he supposes that the Corinthians dislike Paul and his col- leagues, but that he speaks with a paternal spirit, ch. vi. 13 : and in order to prove how far he is from entertaining that sup- position, he calls it a condemnation , thus humbling himself anew. — rtpoeiprixa, I have said before ) ch. vi. 12. — yd p, for) The reason why he himself does not condemn them, and why they ought to receive the apostle and his associates [ver. 2 u Receive ws.”] — zv xapdiaig, in our hearts) So Phil. i. 7. — sig ro ovvatfoQavsTv xa i auZflV, to die and live with you) ch. i. 6, iv. 12. The height of friend- ship.
4. Uapprig/a, boldness of speech) ver. 16, ch. vi. 11. — vrrsp v/iuv, in behalf of you) to others, the antithesis is vpbg v/xdg, to [toward] you. — grapaxXiiffsi, with comfort) concerning which, see ver. 6, 7 :