14. °Ev, one thing) viz. / do. — ra OT/CTW, £/*e things that are be hind) even the very part of the course that has been finished. — s-TTsxruvo/Atvog) that is literally, extending myself over. The eye goes before (outstrips) and draws on the hand, the hand goes before (outstrips) and draws on the foot. — Kara ffxonbv, along, after [towards] the mark) straightforward. — <3/wxw, / follow [I press]) It is used as a neuter verb, as in Luke xvii. 23. — SpafaTov, the prize) the crown of life. — avu, [higJi] above) ver. 20.
15. TsXs/o/, perfect) ver. 12, note. — roDro) this one thing, ver. 14. — srepus) otherwise than perfect (for the person is changed, let us be minded, ye are minded). He does not, however, say srepov or «XXo [fpcvi/H ; which would mean difference or disagree ment of mind] : nor does he mean aught of " minding earthly things," ver. 19. Comp. also Gal. v. 10, — xai rouro) even this, which we, that are perfect, mind, expressed in ver. 14. — 6 0£og, God) even though I do not write it. — U/A/J/, to you) striving at perfection. — dtfoxaXu^g/, will reveal) Eph. i. 17.
16. nXr/i', nevertheless) The expectation of a new revelation should not make you yield the position which you now firmly hold. — elg o) in that, to which we have attained. — tyOdaafAev, we have attained) at a greater or less distance. They are ad monished in order that the others should act with them that are perfect. — errors ty to walk) The infinitive, mildly for the impera tive ; Eorn. xii. 15. — xavow)1 Al. Boern. Clar. Colb. 7. Copt. both the Hilarys* leave out this word; Facundus too, or, by com paring Pelagius, even Sedulius. The clauses thus correspond, rti avr& ffrot^sTv, and ro abrb <ppove?v. Nor even do we follow the Latin Vulgate copies, which transpose the clauses, Covelianus 2 following them in this, since s<p{)dffa/j,zv and <rro/^g?i/ more nearly cohere with one another, and cro^f/P, which is metaphorical, is explained by the ppoveTv which follows after. The word xavovi seems evidently to have been brought hither from Gal. vi. 16. — ro) There is here an Asyndeton. — TO avrb <ppovt?v, to mind the same thing) He returns to this topic, ch. iv. 2.
1 AB Memph. Theb. read only ru xvru ortHxtw : Hilar. 1097, " in ipso ingrediamur." DG<7/" (' convenire,' for arot-^iia) read ro otvro (ppoi/tiv, ry avru GTQixtiu. Vulg., with Rec. Text, retains xowovt, but transposes the order. Rec. Text has ru> otiira arot^lv X.O.VQVI ro otvro (Ppovttv. — ED.
2 Viz., Hilary the deacon, and Hilary of Poitiers. — ED.