xayw r& XOO/A'^, and I to the world) The world is at variance with me : I could not, though I were willing, henceforth gain any favour from the world. This cross includes death, Col. ii. 20.
15. Ours 'yap rttpirofArj n sffrlv ovre axpofiuffria1) So it is accord ing to a very old reading. The more recent reading is in con formity with ch. v. 6.2 Both circumcision and uncircumcisioii are not merely of no avail [/V^us/], but they are ptfr/v] nothing : but there is truly [something, nay, everything in] the new creature and glorying in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. — xaivri jtrfaig) the new creation arising from the cross of Christ, Eph. ii. 15, 16. This is opposed to "old things," 2 Cor. v. 17.
16. Kavo'y/, rule) This refers chiefly to teachers. — e/Vw, peace) May it be, and it shall be. On peace, comp. Eph. ii. 14—17. — IT' avroug, on them) In antithesis to the uncircumcision [those un- circumcised, viz. the unbelieving Gentiles]. — /ca/ g'Xsog, and mercy) Rom. xv. 9. — xa/ eirt rbv 'itfpa^X roD 0soD, and on the Israel of God) In antithesis to the circumcision [the Jews]. The Israel of God are believers of the circumcision, or Jewish nation [Phil. iii. 3]. The meaning of the apostle, which is by no means Jewish, has beautifully seized on an expression incon sistent with the idiom of the people ; for the Hebrews do not say, Israel of God ; nor do they even use the proper name in the construct state.3
17. ToD Ao/^oD, from henceforth) The mode of breaking off the discourse. — xoVoug, labours [trouble]) Polemic theology, seriously discussed, is a laborious task to godly men; ver. 11, note ; and iv. 20. See the second Antisturmius of L. Osiander, p. 87, 107 : xoVoi, labour and anxiety of mind, Matt. xxvi. 10 [Why trouble
1 Tischend. reads ovrt yap, omitting \v yoip ~Kpiffru ' Iwov, with B Syr. and Theb. But Lachm. and Rec. Text read the latter words, with ACD(A)G
fff Vulg. Rec. Text has lazuli with Vulg. ; but ABCDG/^ Origen have IW/*. —Bo.
2 The Germ. Vers. agrees with the Gnomon here, although the larger Ed. has reckoned the shorter reading among those less sure. The margin of the 2d Ed., by the mark ft, agrees with the Gnomon and the Vers. There is the same reason for the word l<rri», to which, by a more recent decision, iar^vet ought to yield. — E. B.
i.e. They do not put two proper names together in such a construction as « the Israel of God."— ED.