-What grieves the Ap. most and appears
most fatal in the party strifes of Cor., is the extolling of human- names by the side of Christ’s and at his expense (see notes On 12-15; also ili. 5, 21-23, and 2 Cor. iv. 5, Gal. vi. 14). Christians are specifically οἱ καυχώµενοι ἐν Χ. ἸΙ., Phil.. ill. 3. The irregularity of mood after ἵνα -καυχάσθω for subj. καυχᾶται---5. accounted for in two ways: either as in anacoluthon, the impv. of the origina. being transplanted in lively quotation (cf Rom. xv. 3, 21); or as an ellipsis, with γένηται or πληρωθῇ mentally supplied (cf. Rom. iv. 16, Gal. ii. 9, 2 Cor. viii: 13)—explanations not materially different. Clem. Rom. (6 13) quotes the text with the same peculiarity.
§ 6. PauL’s CoRINTHIAN Mission, ii. 1-5. Paul has justified his refusing to preach ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου on two grounds: (x) the nature of the Gospel, (2) the con- stituency of the Church of Cor. ; if was no philosophy, and they were no philo- sophers. This refusal he continues to make, in pursuance of the course adopted from the outset. So he returns to his starting-point, viz., that ‘‘ Christ sent” him ‘to bring good tidings,” such as neither required nor admitted of ‘ wis- dom of word’’ (i. 17).
Ver. 1. Κἀάγὼ ἐλθὼν . . . ἦλθον:
I—3. ‘J
γὰρ “éxpiwa τοῦ 1 εἰδέναι 1 τι} ἐν f 4
"τοῦτον ᾿ ἐσταυρωμένον ' 3. καὶ ἐγὼ
LK. vii. 43, xii. 57; Acts. iii. 13, etc. f See i. 23. Viii. 11.