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ming. Many persons, who have been shipwrecked, thus contend with the waters for many hours, so that they may at last escape.
26. ' O hoivoplcug, in joumeyings) See Acts. — Iv ^eudadsXtpo/g, among false brethren ) This danger is most distressing ; being added to the others contrary to expectation [rrapa, rtpoehoi c/av], it has a pleasing effect. [ These men were bitter and pestiferous, although not destitute of the appearance of good. Gal. ii. 4. — Y. g.]
27. ’Ev, in) Five clauses ; the second agrees with the first,
the fourth with the third, in pleasant harmony. — h in
hunger) Deut. xxviii. 48, Iv Xi/uu xctt Iv xai Iv yv/uvorriri, xa /
£ v kx’kz'r^pzi <ravrwv.
28. Xupig , beside) The particle serves the purpose of connec- tion.— ruv <irapz-x.ros) It is thus he terms external labours and troubles. Hitherto he describes his own ; he now refers to those of others, that had been shared with him. — f) The Ap- position of the oblique and nominative case, such as that of Basil of Seleucia, u) (puvrjg, turriplag Kriyii : comp, note on Chrys. de Sacerd. p. 504. — l^iavaratslg /u,ov, that which cometh upon me) The lxx. often use the verb l*i<s\)vi<srr\tu, and the verbal noun sKiovGraGig, of the sedition of Korah and his associates : comp. Acts xxiv. 12. Here therefore we remark the disorderly con- duct of those, who troubled Paul by the perverseness of their doctrine or life ; for example, Gal. vi. 17. — xa0’ ij/nspav, daily) A large extent of time ; and of place, in the words, of all. — xoufoov, of all) This is more modest than if he had said vutirig rv\g
ag, of the whole church. Of all, of those even, to whom I have not come, Col. ii. 1. Peter could not have alleged that of himself in an equal degree.1
29. Tig, who) He not merely cares for the churches, but for the souls of individuals. — aakvoj, I am weak) not only through condescension, <fvyxuru(3a,ffig, 1 Cor. ix. 22, but through com- passion.— cxavba Xl^zrcu, is offended) To be weak and to be offended , at least in this passage, differ, comp. Rom. xiv. 21, note. The former comes by itself; the latter, by means of others. — xa/ obx syu mpob/xai, and I bum not) He adds 1 , not in
1 Since Peter was the apostle of the circumcision peculiarly. Whereas Paul was, of all the numerous churches of the uncircumcision. — Ed.
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