11. 3"Er/) still [as yet], ch. i. 10. — x^tWw, I preach) Hence
1 See App. When a word is put twice in the same passage in a double sense.
2 Wahl notices the paronomasia in the words KtiQeaQau and Trtia^ovvj. He gives the latter word a transitive meaning, Studium persuadendi aliis ea quae nobis placent et probantur — The desire to persuade others of what pleases ourselves and meets our approval. ( Ueberredungskunst.' — ED.
i This particle in the larger Ed. is reckoned rather as an uncertain read ing, but by the margin o/the 2d Ed it is considered among the more certain,
we gather what had been said by this turbulent person, " that Paul himself preached circumcision ;" and perhaps he took as a pretext the circumcision of Timothy ; and yet the reason for his having done so in the case of the latter, a long while back, was quite different [from the grounds on which it was advocated by the disturber]. — 3/wxo/o.a/, / suffer persecution) They perse cuted Paul, because he did away with circumcision. It was now a useless rite, which, if Paul would have conceded to his opponents, there would have been immediate peace ; but he did not yield. See how keenly the truth should be defended. — «/?«, then) If I were to preach circumcision, he says, there would at present be no offence of the Cross ; but the offence still burns hotly. There fore it is a false assertion, that I am a preacher of circumcision. — <rxav<5aXov, an offence) among carnal men. — roD <rraupoD, of the Cross) the power of which is inconsistent with circumcision ; ch. vi. 12, 14. The Cross of Christ itself is intended. There was a great blending together of Jews and Judaizers. Many more easily endured the preaching of the Cross of Christ, by mixing it up with circumcision and the preaching of circumci sion. They thus still retained something.
12. 9 Airoxo-fyovrai, shall be cut off) Immediately after the re proof concerning the past, Paul entertains [and expresses] good hope of the Galatians for the future ; but he denounces punish ment against the seducers in two sentences, which, by disjoin ing in the meantime the particle opfXov, are as follows : — 6 ds rapdfftfMV vf/^ac (Baffraffsi rb xp/'/^a, x.r.X., xai a-roxo-vj/oyra/ 01 avaffra- rovvrsg v(j,$.g. That one concealed troubler, worse than the others, ver. 10, who boasted that Paul himself agreed with him about circumcision, is here, cursorily in passing, refuted, ver. 1 1 ; but the others also, who are disturbing the Galatians about the status of the Gospel [in relation to circumcision and the law], are threatened with being cut off. Thus the particle xa/, and, retains its natural meaning, and these words cohere, ftaffraffst — oe — xa/ avoxo-^ovrat, as well as those, ytpmre — ds — xa/ 1 Cor. v. 12, 13: atfoxo-^ovrai is the future middle,
and therefore also in the Germ. Vers. It is twice expressed in this verse. — • E. B.
D corrected later, Gfg, omit &•/. But AB Vulg. and Rec. Text retain it. C has efn. — ED.