of glorying, but of popnov, a burden. Nay, the very word glory ing, used by Mimesis,1 at the same time includes the contrary. — rb xav^r^a, glorying) that, by which he says : I am something. — fgg/, shall have) he himself being judge.
5. Qoprlov, a burden) either heavy or light. Comp. pdpy, ver. 2. — Gaaraffsi, shall bear) in the Divine judgment. The future, the antithesis to which is in the present [Bear ye] in ver. 2. There is however a " semiduplex oratio" in these words, so that the one is simultaneously indicated by the other.2 Glo rying is used as an " ad hominem" argument, because the other exhibits [shows on his part] false glorying : this is taken away from him, and the peculiar testimony of a good conscience is also in the meantime called glorying, in the way of paraphrase.
6. Koivuveiru ds, but let him communicate) [The connection is this :] Paul means to say, When I said [Every man shall bear] his own burden, that should not be turned to an argument for the diminution of your liberality, xoivuvw, just in the same way as the Latin participo, includes the idea both of receiving and giving a share ; here, the idea is of giving, as in Phil. iv. 15, very elegantly. — !i> iraeiv ayaQofg, in all good things) in every kind of resources, as the occasion may require [as the case may be].
7. &sbg ov {jwKrrjpi^zrai) The verb is in the middle voice. God does not permit empty promises to be made to Him [empty words to be imposed on Him : lit. smoke to be sold to Him, " Sibi fumos vendi"]. The expression, which is by no means common,3 seems to allude to the LXX., and indeed to Prov. xii. 8, vudpoKap- dio$ ftuKrypifyrai, so that the meaning is : God is not vuQpoxdpdiog, slow of understanding [like the man in Proverbs], but judges truly, and does not keep silence without a purpose, or for ever ; Ps. 1. 21. They endeavour to mock Him, who think thus: I will sow to the flesh, and yet I will persuade God to give me the harvest of life. — 6 sdv, whatsoever) whether bad or good. —
1 Alluding to the opinion of the Galatians, not to his own opinions. — ED.
2 See App. The present is understood in ver. 4, where the future is used ; and the future is understood in verse 2, where the present is used.
3 Th. ftvxrvip, the nostrils : properly, to sneer at one with the nostrils drawn up in an expression of contempt. Wahl here takes it " patior illudi mihi." — ED.