26. µεχριτ., Heb. iii 6, 14.
im q Vili. x ff., xii 3, xiii. 2, 8, xiv. 6; thrice (so) in 2 Cor.; twice in Rom.; Eph. iii. 19; Col. ii 3; 1 Tim. vi. 20; 2 Ρει.ἶ,5 Εξ; Lk 10; I Tim. ii. 6; 2 Tim. i 8; paprupta in John, exc. Rev. xv. 5.
xi 52. τα τα ποςυ s 2 Cor. i. 21; Rom. xv. 8; Ph
t viii. 8, xii 24, xvi. 17; thrice besides in P.; Heb. u vii 7, xii. 4 ff; 2 Cor. i 11; four times in Rom.; 1 Tim. iv. 14; 1 Pet. iv. τα. ν Rom. viii. 19 ff.; Gal v. 5; Ph. iii 20; Heb. ix. 28; 1 Pet. iii. 20 only. thrice in 1 Pet.; cf. Gal. i. 12, 16; Rom viii. το.
εις τελος, I ΤΗ. il. 16.
2 ΤΗ. 1.7; x 2 Cor. i 13 only. αχριτ., Heb. vi. 11; Rev. it ly Col. i 22; 1 Tim iii. το; Tit. 1. 6f only.
z iii. 13, iv. 3, ν. 5; 2 Cor. i. 14; 10 times besides in P.; Acts ii. 20; Joel iii. 31, etc.
1Θεου in B*G, a few minuscc., arm.
2 The Western reading is παρουσιᾳ: DG, etc.
in die adventus (conflate).
thing you were enriched,” etc. For this defining ὅτι after a vbl. noun, cf. ver. 26 and 2 Cor. i. 8. The affluence of en- dowment conferred on the Cor. stirred the Apostle’s deep gratitude (cf. 7, 2 Cor. vili. g): this wealth appears in another light in iv. 6-10, v. 2, viii. 1-3: see also Introd., p. 7391. The Church doubtless dwelt upon this distinction in its recent letter, to which Ῥ. is replying. ἐν παντὶ is defined, and virtually limited, by év παντὶ λόγῳ καὶ πάσῃ γνώσει (kindred gifts, linked by the single prp.): the exuberance of grace in the Cor. shone “in all (manner of) utterance and all (manner of) knowledge”. λόγος in this connexion signifies not the thing said (as in 18), but the saying of it, loguendi facultas (Bz.). ‘Relatively to γνῶσις, λόγος is the ability and readiness to say what one understands ; yv. the power and ability to understand” (Hn.). “ Know- ledge’? would naturally precede; but the Cor. excelled and delighted in ‘‘ speech ” above all: see ii. 1-4, 13, iv. 19 f., xiii. 1.
Ver. 6. τοῦ Χριστοῦ is objective gen. to τὸ paptvptov—‘‘ the witness to Christ,” —coming from both God and man (xv. 3-11, 2 Thess. i. 10); otherwise in ii. r ; cf. Rom. i. 2, ‘the good news of God about His Son”. μαρτύριον indicates the well-established truth of the message (see, e.g., Xv. 15), εὐαγγέλιον its beneficial and welcome nature (see Rom. i. 16 f.).— ἐβεβαιώθη ἐν ὑμῖν, “(the witness about Christ) was made sure among you’”’; its reality was verified. By outward de- monstration — miracles, etc.; or by the inner persuasion of a firm faith, “interna Spiritus virtus” (Cv.)? The latter cer- tainly, in Pauline usage (see parls.: but not to the exclusion of the former) ; cf. ii.
Ambrst., Pelagius, with vg., read
4 f., and notes; xii. 10, ἐνεργήματα δυνάµεων; also 1 Thess. i. 5 f., il. 13, Gal. ii. 5; the two went together ---πολλῶν θαυμάτων, apatov χάριτος (Cm.). At first discouraged, Paul had preached at Cor. with signal power, and his message awakened a decided and energetic faith; see ii. 1-5, xv. I, II; Acts xviii. 5-11.
Ver. 7 describes the result of the firm establishment of the Gospel: ὥστε ὑμᾶς μὴ ὑστερεῖσθαι κ.τ.λ. (ὥστε with inf. of contemplated result : see Bn. §§ 369 Π.), “causing you not to feel behindhand in any gift of grace”; the mid. ὑστερεῖσθαι implies subjective reflexion, the con- sciousness of inferiority (Ev.): similarly in Rom. iii. 23, “find themselves short of the glory of God”’ (Sanday and Head.) ; and in Luke xv. 14, “he began to feel his destitution”’, The pr. inf. and ptp. of the vbs. bear no ref. to the time of writing; their time is given by the governing ἐβεβαιώθη: the strong assurance with which the Cor. embraced the Gospel was followed by a shower of spiritual energies, of which they had a lively sense. A χάρισμα (see parls.) is χάρις in some concrete result (see Cr. s. v.),— a specific endowment of (God’s) grace, whether the fundamental charism, em- bracing all others, of salvation in Christ (Rom. v. 16), or, ¢.g., the special and in- dividual charism of continence (vii. 7). No church excelled the Cor. in the variety of its endowments and the satis- faction felt in them. Chaps. xii.-xiv. enumerate and discuss the chief Cor. χαρίσματα, setting ἀγάπη ἵπ their midst; ethical qualities are included under this term, vv. 8 ἕ----ἀπεκδεχομέν- ους τ. ἀποκάλυψιν κ.τ.λ., “while you