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vii. Q 3 / les / ο 2 ο 3 A κ. / x ati, ἐν Kopivdw,! "ἡγιασμένοις "ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, " κλητοῖς * ἁγίοις, " σὺν
16; Heb.x. 10,29; fo. XVii. 17.
f 2 Cor., Eph., Ph., Col., Acts ix. 13, etc.
g 2 Cor.; 2 Tim. ii 22 16; Rom. x. 13; Gen. iv. 26, etc; Ps cxvi. 4; Joel ii 32; Zech. xiii. ο.
επᾶσι τοῖς " ἐπικαλουμένοις τὸ "ὄνομα τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
kh Acts ii. 41, ix. 14, 21, xxii,
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ina. : probably a Western deviation.
viii. 29 f.), not distinguished as in Matt. xx. 16. The thought of the “call” of God as assigning to each Christian man his status is prominent in this ep.: see vv. 9, 24 ff., vii. 17-24.--Σωσθένης 6 ἀδελφὸς is a party to the Letter, which notwithstanding runs in first pers. sing., as in Gal. after οἱ σὺν ἐμοὶ πάντες adeA- got of i. 2; otherwise in 2 Cor. and 1 and 2 Thess.: Sosthenes (only named here by P.) shares in this ep. not as joint-composer, but as witness and approver. He would scarcely be in- troduced at this point as amanuensis (cf. Rom. xvi. 22). S. is a person known to and honoured by the Cor., but now with the Ap. at Ephesus and in his confidence. He may, or may not, have been the Sosthenes of Acts xviii. 17—the name was fairly common. One ἀρχισυνάγωγος (Crispus) had been converted at Cor., why not another after- wards? P. would delight to make of a persecutor an ally. His former position would give an ex-Synagogue-leader weight, especially with Jewish Chris- tians; and his subsequent conversion may account fer Luke’s exceptionally preserving Sosthenes’ name as Paul’s assailant (see M. Dods on the point, in Exp. Bib.). Eusebius (Hist. Eccles., i. 12) makes S. one of the Seventy of Luke x. 17—‘‘a worthless tradition” Lt.).
We 2. τῇῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ (in salutation of 1 and 2 Cor. only) gives supreme dignity to the assembly of Cor. addressed by the Ap. of Christ Jesus—the assembled citizens of God's kingdom and commonwealth (Eph. ii. 12, τος ο ας ντα, Tpbeten Ἡ. ο Lay τῃ οὔσῃ ἐν Kop., “that exists in Corinth Ἰ)---- leium et ingens paradoxon (Bg.): so far the Gospel has reached (2 Cor. x. 13 f.) ; in so foul a place it flourishes! (vi. 9 ff.). Not as earlier, “‘the assembly of Thes- salonians,” etc.: the conception of the ecclesia widens; the local Christian gathering is part of one extended “con- gregation of God,” existing in this place or that (see last clause). To τῇ ἐκκλη- σίᾳτ. Θεοῦ is apposed, by way of pre-
dicative definition (hence anarthrous), ἡγιασμένοις ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ, “the Church of God (consisting of men) sanctified in Christ’ Jesus’: Church status is grounded on personal relation- ship to God in Christ. Now this rela- tionship began with God’s call, which summoned each to a holy life within the Christian fellowship; hence the further apposition, κλητοῖς ἁγίοις (see note on 1, and Rom. i. 7; of. Acts xviii. ΙΟ, λαός ἐστίν por πολύς κ.τ.λ.). The pf. pass. ptp. expresses a determinate state: once for all the Cor. readers have been devoted to God, by His call and their consent. This initial sanctifi- cation is synchronous with justification (vi. Ix), and is the positive as that is the negative side of salvation : ἐλευθερωθέντες ἀπὸ τ. ἁμαρτίας, ἐδουλώθητε τ. δικαιο- σύνῃ (Rom. vi. 16-10). “ Sanctified in Christ Jesus” (=“living to God in Christ Jesus,” Rom. vi. 11) imports union with Christ (vi. 17, το, xii. 11, Rom. viii..9 Εξ) as well as salvation through Christ. His past work is the objective ground, His present heavenly being (implied by the name “Christ Jesus,” as in this order) the active spring of this ζην τῷ Θεῷ: cf. ver. 30 and note. The repeated ref. to the holiness of the readers recalls them to their vocacion; low practice calls for the reassertion of high ideals; admonet Corinthios majestatis tpsorum (Bg.). Cv. draws a_ diff. yet consistent infer- ence: “Locus diligenter observandus, ne requiramus in hoc mundo Ecclesiam omni ruga et macula carentem’’. The adjunct σὺν πᾶσιν ΄ . « τόπῳ may qualify ἡγιασμένοις κ.τ.λ. (SO some moderns), or the main predicate (Gr. Ff.): z.¢e., the Church shares (a) in its Christian sanctity, or (b) in the Apostie’s good wishes, ‘‘with all that call upon the name,’ etc. (6) gives a_ better balanced sentence, and a true Pauline sentiment : Eph. vi. 24, also the Benediction of Clem. Rom. ad Cor., ἵχν. —v πάντι Témw@, an expression indefi- nitely large (see parls.), approaching “im all the world” of Rom. i. 8, Col. i. 6;