a more novel and splendid Christianity, if any such was to be found.
5. Tap, for ) The particle connecting the discussion with the proposition [the subject he proposed to discuss]. The sum of Paul’s boasting is here stated and repeated, ch. xii. 11. — r&v vrtspXtav, the very chief est) such as James, Kephas, John [distin- guished for their high 'privilege in being ivitnesses of the transfigura- tion of Jesus. — Y. g.], or even the other survivors of the twelve, Gal. ii. 2, not merely such as those, who are called apostles in a wider sense, i.e. I am as much an apostle as he who is most so. Peter has no title to any preference. [Acts xxvi. 13, 16 ; Gal. i. 16.]
6. E /, if) He proves himself to be an apostle, 1. from his knowledge worthy of an apostle ; 2. from his self-denial in refraining from asking them for maintenance, ver. 7, 8. He makes by anticipation a way to himself for stating both of these facts, so that the necessity of stating them may be clearly seen. — }hiwrr\g, rude) This word is opposed to his apostolic eminence [ver. 5]. His detractors spoke of Paul as i rude’ [untutored]. He declares that he was not rude in knowledge , which was the first gift of an apostle : and an extraordinary instance of it is found in the next chapter. That he was rude in speech, he neither very strongly denies, since that wTas not injurious to the apostleship, nay, it conduced to its advantage, 1 Cor. i. 17, etc. : nor does he confess it with greater prolixity [at greater length] than his power in speaking allowed ; nor does he an- swer, that other apostles also may be considered rude in speech, but he leaves the matter undetermined, comp. ch. x. 10, 11, and to be decided by the Corinthians themselves ; for he adds : but we have been made manifest to you in all things , etc. [lie therefore removes out of the way one after another of those things, which the Corinthians opposed to his prerogative as an apostle. — Y. g.] — dXX’ sv <7ravrl (pavspwQsvrsg sv <7ru<n v s/g vgug) The Yulgate has, but we are manifested in all things to you,1 as if either sv navri or sv naaiv were superfluous. But the two expressions have a different meaning : sv <; ravr), in every thing, even in speech and know-
1 In omnibus autem manifestati sumus vobis. So also the Ante-Ilierony- mic Lat. Versions fg and the uncial MS. G. But the weight of authorities support both sv %ot,vr\ and sv nciiuv. — Ed.