the style of its court apostolical. — rpopbi) a mother, and at the same time a nurse. Weigh well the expression, her own. The spiritual are analogous to the natural affections, ver. 1 1 ; 1 Tim. v. 1, 2.
8. Oiirwg, ipsipofAsvoi vpuv, evdoxov/Asv) and seeing that it was so, i.e. inasmuch as ive felt the strongest affection for you, we were ready, etc. The text has been at once suited for (pronunciation em) correct delivery, whilst in the marks of punctuation a more careful stopping of the sentence is equivalent to a note. The same word, ipsipovrai, is found in Job iii. 21. Evdoxovfjuv, even without the augment, may still be the imperfect tense : in the whole1 of Paul's statement all the facts proceed in the preterite, which the versions here also retain. — -^v^ag, souls) Our soul desired as it were to enter into your soul.
10.2 'lie orius xai dixafus xat afj,£/j.<7rruc, how liolily and justly and unblameably) Those who seek no glory from men attain to this character, that they conduct themselves liolily in divine things, justly towards men, unblameably in respect of themselves. — roTg ffiffTtvovtfiv, among [in the eyes of, towards] you that believe) although we might not appear to others to be so.
11. 'rig sva exa<rrov, how every one) They do not act in this way who seek [their own] glory, ver. 6. — wj crar^p, as a father) Mild gravity is the characteristic of fathers. — sra^ axaXoums, exhorting) This depends on eytvjtfafiw, we became (behaved), ver. 10.
exhortation, rouses one to do something willingly; consolation, to do it joyfully ; rb {taprvpsTffQai, earnest entreaty, testifying \_charging~], to do it with awe.
12. BacvXs/av xai do%av, His kingdom and glory) A magnificent combination.
13. A/a rouro, for this cause) i.e. because you have had such teachers. — sv^apiffro^iv, we give thanks) The naked and cate gorical sentence would be, You have received [the word of God].
1 In the last Ed. of the Gnomon, published at Berlin, and in the Tubingen Ed., 1773, I find nota instead of tota : the translation in that case would be, in a well-known narrative. Tota seems to suit the sense here.— TB.
Tota is the reading of Ed. 2, quarto, A.D. 1752, and is doubtless the true reading. — ED.
of) ye are witnesses, and what is of much more