lit. = literal, literally.
Lt. = J. B. Lightfoot’s (posthumous) Notes on Epp. of St. Paul (1895)- mid. = middle voice.
Mr. = Meyer’s Critical and Exegetical Commentary (Eng. Trans.). nom. = nominative case.
obj. = grammatical object.
Oec. = Oecumenius, the Greek Commentator,
opp. = opposite, opposition.
Or. = Origen. P. = Paul. parl. = parallel.
part. = grammatical particle. pass. = passive voice. pers. = grammatical person, or personal. pl. = plural. pr. = present tense. pron. = pronoun. prp., prpl. = preposition, prepositional. ptp., ptpl. = participle, participial. Κ.Ο. = Roman Catholic. ref. = reference. rel. = relative pronoun. sbj. = subjunctive mood. sing. = singular number. Sm. = P. Schmiedel, in Handcommentar sum N.T. (1803). $.0. = sub voce, under this word. syn. = synonym, synonymous. Tert. = Tertullian. Thd. = Theodoret, Greek Commentator. Thp. = Theophylact, Greek Commentator. vb., vbl. = verb, verbal. Vg. = Latin Vulgate Translation. W.H. = Westcott and Hort’s The New Testament in Greek: Critical Text and Notes. Wr. = Winer-Moulton’s Grammar of N.T. Greek (8th ed., 1877).
The ordinary contractions are employed in the textual notes. Other abbrevia- tions will explain themselves. The references in the marginal parallels and textual notes are made to the Greek Text of the O.T.; in the Commentary, to the English text, unless otherwise stated.
I. 1. ΠΑΥΛΟΣ "κλητὸς 5 ἀπόστολος ᾿Ιησοῦ ὃ Χριστοῦ,ξ ” διὰ θελήματος a Rom. i. 1, η η Pp ημ. δες
Θεοῦ, καὶ Σωσθένης °6 ἀδελφός, 2. τῇ
1; 24 below; Rom. viii, 28; 2 Kings xv. 11. Col, Phm.; xvi. 12 below; Rom. xvi. 23
b 2 Cor., Eph., Col, 2 Tim.; Rom. xv. 32 d x. 32, xi. 16, 22, xv. 9; 2Cor.; Gal. i, 13; 1 Th. ii. 14;
i ; Ae a Asbo . (same ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ " Θεοῦ τῇ οὔσῃ double use), Jude.
c 2 Cor.,
2 Th.i 4; 1 Tim fii 5,15; Acts xx. 28; Neh. xiii. 1.
| The oldest form of Title, in ABCD, is ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ A. This
was gradually extended as the epp. came to be treated as separate books.
FG read
Προς Κ. αρχεται d (G om. ά); so latt. with variations, and the oldest MSS. of vg.
P: Πανλου επιστολη προς K. a.
L: τ. αγιον κ. πανευφημ.ου αποστ. Π. επιστολη
προς K. πρωτη. The minuscules furnish a great variety of titles. Stephens wrote Ἡ προς τ. Κ. επιστολη πρωτη. The title of the T.R. and A.V. comes from Bz. and Elzevir, without MS. authority.
2 AD, Cyr. om. κλητος.
3Xprigtov Inoov (?) in ΒΡΕ, vg.
Western reading. Syrian.
Ino. Χρ., NALP, etc., cop. syrr., W.H. mark the group BDG as untrustworthy; but Pauline usage speaks
(older copies), Chr., Ambrst., Aug.: the Cyr. Dam.: Alexandrian and
for Χ. |.,—the certain reading in other Addresses where this combination occurs,
exc. Rom. and Tit. W.H., !. X. in text, Χ. |. in margin.
ΤΗΕ InTRopDucTIon. § 1. The Title and Salutation, i. 1-3. Πρὸς Κορινθίους a@ (see txtl. note) is a sub-title, marking the ep. as part of the collection bear- ing the general name ‘O ἀπόστολος. With this agrees the oldest system of chapters (κεφάλαια), preserved by Cod. B, which divided the fourteen Letters into sections numbered consecutively throughout. In all ancient copies this ep. stands second in ‘‘The Apostle” ; the Muratorian Canon sets it primum omnium.
CHAPTER I,—Vv. 1-3. The salutation is full and varied in the epp. of this group. As in Galatians and Romans, P. emphasises his apostleship (see ix. 1 f.), at present in dispute. The readers are (in 1 and 2 Cor.) “the Church” and
The Edd. are doubtful; Tisch., Al., Tr., Nestle, prefer X. |.;
‘the saints”—a transition from ‘the ch.” of 1 and 2 Thess. (‘the churches,” Gal.) to “the saints” of Rom. and later epp. Here stress is thrown with a purpose, (1) on the sanctity of the Cor. Church, (2) on its fellowship with the general body of Christians.
Ver. 1. Παῦλος κλητὸς ἀπόστολος (so in Rom.)—not ap. by merit or human choice, but called thereto διὰ θελήµασος Θεοῦ (so in later epp.), through an ex- press intervention of the Divine will, cf. ix. 161, Gali. Ἕ το £) Eph. iis 2if., also Acts ix. 15, etc. ‘‘A called apostle” as the Cor. are ‘‘called saints”: he summoned to be herald and dispenser (17, 23, iv. 1), they receivers of God’s Gospel (26-31). The κλητοὶ are in P. identified with the ἐκλεκταί (26 f., Rom,