xxiv. 24. Aum/As/s are most palpable works of divine omni- potence.
13. T/, what) This word refers both to the antecedents and the consequents. — Xoinag, other churches) planted either by me or by the other apostles. — u ^ ) — ruurriv, unless — this) a striking Asteismus [instance of refined pleasantry]. — uvr'og, I myself) The antithesis follows, nor by others , ver. 16, 17. I did not burden you myself nor make a gain of you by those others whom I sent, Titus, etc. — udnc/uV) wrong) The apostle might rightly [as opposed to adixiav] have accepted his maintenance from the Cor- inthians, and when he did not avail himself of this right , he im- putes it to himself, as a wrong ; and he gives it this name, not in the way of irony, with which the language of the apostle is in- consistent, but in the way of amphibology, for he uses adixtav in this passage, in a very unusual sense, which may be expressed in Latin by non-jus , and it has a in the privative sense, as uvo- fiog, av6fj,ug, are sometimes used [ without law; not contrary to law ], Rom. ii. 12 ; 1 Cor. ix. 21 : so ccvvxoroixrov [ not subjected , instead of insubordinate ], Heb. ii. 8 : and yet it admits at the same time the idea of injustice , deprecating thereby all suspicion of want of love to the Corinthians [in his not accepting main- tenance from them] ; forgive me , comp. xi. 11.
14. Ta v[Auv, yours) Phil. iv. 17. — v^dg, you) that I may
gain you. Matt, xviii. 15. He heaps up spiritual treasures for the souls of the Corinthians, ver. 15 [ vnsp tojv v/auv].
15. ’Eyw dsj but I) The d's makes an Epitasis [emphatic addi- tion to the enunciation already made]. — da<rav^<rw) I will spend what belongs to me. — sxdacrai/^tfo/Aa/, I myself will be spent) — yjrrov , less) Love rather descends, than ascends. [It is unworthy to repay the most devoted love with a scanty measure of love .
-v. g.] _ ' . . .
16. ’A?.X’ vKup^wv, but inasmuch as I was) an objection which the Corinthians [moved by suspicion , V. g.] might frame.1 The answer is in the following verse. — s\u(3ov, I caught) that you might not escape the net, that was set with a view to my gain.
17. M/j nva uv — d / avrov) for did nvog rovruv, ovg dveffraX^ca,.
1 i.e., You may object and say that though I did not burden you, I yet, as being crafty, caught you by guile. — Ed.