Ver. 4. On εὐχαριστῶ κ.τ.λ., and the form of Paul’s introductory thanksgiv- ings, see Rom. i. 8. ἐπὶ τῇ χάριτι κ.τ.λ. ---πί (at), of the occasioning cause; cf. xili, 6, xiv. 16, etc. τ. δοθείσῃ ὑμῖν (aor. ptp.)—‘the grace that was given you,” sc. at conversion (see 6); contrast the pr. ptp. of continuous bestowment in xv. 57, and the pf. of abiding result in 2 Cor. viii. 1. For ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ, see note on ver. 2. P. refers not to the general objective gift of grace in Christ (as in Rom. viii. 32), nor to its eternal bestowment in the thought of God (as in 2 Tim. i. 9), but to its actual conferment at the time when the Cor. became God’s κλητοὶ ἅγιοι (2).
Ver. 5. ὅτι κ.τ.λ. stands in explica- tive apposition to the foregoing τ. χάριτι τ. δοθείσῃ, bringing out the matter of thanksgiving eminent in the conversion of the Cor.—(I mean), that in every-
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