ceremonies. The body, as well as the shadow, to which it is opposed, is the predicate ; and therefore it may be thus resolved : meaty drink, etc., are the shadow of things to come ; but the body of Christ is the body [the substantial thing], or, in other words, that which belongs to Christ is the body. Allusion is made to the very body of Christ, but Christianity is understood ; rb roD Xpiffrov sffri ffupa,. If you suppose that ' body9 is to be supplied in the subject, it will be a Ploce.1
18. Models vfta$ xa,ra(3paf3&v'sru, let no man assume the office of umpire to dictate to you \let no man beguile you of your reward^ ) A word closely connected with judging (xptv'eru), and establishing ordinances or dogmas (fayft&rfydi)) ver. 16, 20 ; for (3pa.(3evu, I guide or regulate prnoderor;' Engl. Vers. rule], see iii. 15, note; from which xa,Ta(3paj3svcd differs, as xara^pdo/^ai [abuse] differs from ^pdo/^ai [use] ; and the verb itself, which is com pounded with xara, governs the accusative, £//•«£, you, for the preposition xara would require the genitive : Hesychius has xura!3pdf3&rai (read Karappafisverai) xaraxpivsrai, xarayuvtfyrai. Therefore Paul means to say, Let no one, usurping the autho rity of judge [arbitrator] of the prizes, and accordingly abusing it, guide and regulate you in the race which you are running, and mislead you by prescribing what you, about to receive the prize, should follow, what you should avoid A French inter preter has skilfully used the word maitriser, " to domineer ; " for the apostle is not speaking of a rival snatching the prize of the race before you, but of an odious, perverse, insolent judge (umpire). On this verb depend four participles, through as many sentences, of which the first and third, the second and fourth, have respect to each other. The manifold advantage of this Chiasmus, now noticed, will by and by appear. — 0'eXuv sv
1 See App. A word put twice, once in the meaning of the simple word, then to express an attribute of it. The body of Christ is the body, i.e. the substance, the essential thing. — ED.
2 This is the Engl. Vers. Bengel translates it, let no one treat you ac cording to his own whim (pro arbitrio). The verb KoiToiftpxftsva signifies to decide against any one in adjudging the prizes at the public games. It ap pears, from a passage in Demosthenes, to imply fraud and injustice in the decision.
Wahl, Clavis N. T., renders the verb,palma or prcemio fraudo. " Properly it means, to be umpire in a contest to the detriment of some one" — ED.