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23. 'Tnepj [pro] in behalf of \ for) This gives the motive of the confidence.1 2 — T/Vou, xo/vuvbg, in behalf of Titus , a partner) These words are in apposition ; comp. [ch. xi. 28] Luke xxii. 20 [6/a^x^ sv rip ai/xari /xovy r'o vn'ep bfiuv ix%uv6/usvoi]y note. — adsXpo/, brethren) It might have been said for , or in behalf of our brethren , but the word xoivuvbg, partner , coming in between as the nominative case, brethren is also put in the nominative, and the verb are is supplied, i.e.y whether they are and are regarded as our brethren for the sake of whom we are confident you will be liberal]. — diroffroXoi) deputies , messengers ; persons who on the public ac- count execute a pious office. Again supply are.
24. evdel%a<rQe) This expression is the same idiom as ycLiPiw % ccpuv } — 21 g uvroi>gy s ig rrpoGwxov ruv ixx.Xrjo’/au, to them, in the face of the churches ) The knowledge of the matter was sure to spread by means of the messengers [deputies] among the churches.
1. ypdptv, to write) For you will have witnesses present with you, and I know, that you are ready without writing letters to you.
2. I boast) The present tense. Paul was still in Macedonia. — 3 6 Ig u//,wv £3j Xog) the zeal, which was propagated from you to the Macedonians. — roug crXg/ov ag) most [not merely very many , as Engl. V.] of the Macedonians..
3. "Esre/^a, I sent) before me, ver. 5. — b rp fispei, in this re- spect [behalf ]) He makes a limitation. — xa dug sXsyw, as I was saying , ver. 2.
4. 'r/Agft, ye) much more so [you would feel still more ashamed than we]. — u-roo'rao's/, stedfast confidence) [concerning your libe- rality], ch. xi. 17.
1 i.e. We feel confident you will be liberal for the sake of Titus. — Ed.
2 An accus. of a cognate signification to the verb, Manifest a manifesta- tion.— Ed.
3 ’A-tto ivk pvot, since last year ) owing to the former exhortation of Paul, 1 Cor. xvi. 1. — V. g.
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