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mine . — oivgavo<usvqg, increasing ) The present [as your faith is now increasing . But Engl. Y. When your faith is increased]. Paul wished neither to leave the Corinthians before the proper time, nor to put off [preaching to] others too long. — sv vy,?v, in your case , [by you]) Our altogether solid and complete success in your case will give us an important step towards still farther successes. — fAS'yaXvvQijvou — sva yysXiffaffdai) to be truly enlarged by preaching the Gospel [lit. So as to preach the Gospel], To boast is in anti- thesis to both verbs conjointly, but especially to enlarged. — sig nspnsts siuv) abundantly.
16. E /;, to) or in relation to. The antitheses are, in the places beyond you , and, as to the things (places) that are ready to our hand. — ra vKsphsiva, those places , which are beyond) to which no person has yet come with the Gospel, towards the south and west ; for he had come from Athens to Corinth, Acts xviii. 1. — ovx sv dXXorp/cfjj not in another marts) The antithesis is, according to our rule [ver. 15]. — tig) to intrude ourselves by boasting into [as to] those things (places) which are ready to our hand. — sroifi a, ready. It denotes even more than ^ro/^ao^gi/a.1
17. ‘O ds9 but he who) He hereby in some measure sounds a retreat ; and yet by this very clause of after-mitigation,2 he again gives a blow to the false apostles. — sv K vp/p, in the Lord) and therefore with the approval of the Lord [ver. 18],