de l’'humanité ...ce que les Paiens appellent ἰα muse et qui se concentre dans les génies” (Gd.).—‘‘(Not the spirit of the world we received), but the Spirit which is from (issues from: ék, antitheton ἐν, Bg.) God” (compare ὡς ἐκ Θεοῦ, 2 Cor. Π. 17); the phrase recalls the teaching of Jesus in John xiv. 26, xv. 26; see also Rom. ν. 5, Gal. iv. 6. “The spirit of the world” breathes in men who are a part of the world; “the Spirit that is from God” visits us trom another sphere, bringing knowledge of things removed from natural appre- hension (see Isa. lv. 9). ἐλάβομεν im- plies actual, objective recciving (taking), as in iii. 8, xi. 23, etc.—tva εἰδῶμεν κ.τ.λ. (see note on οἶδα, 11, and cf. the em- phatic οἶδα of 2 Cor. ν. 1,2 Tim. i. 12) —a bold word here—‘that we may know (certo scire, Cv.) the things that by God were bestowed in His grace upon us”. τὰ χαρισθέντα, aor. ptp., points to the historic gifts of God to men in Christ, which would have been idle boons without the Spirit enabling us to “know” them; cf. Eph. i. 17 Π., ἵνα δωῇ . . « πνεῦμα ... cis τ. cidévar. χαρίζοµαι (to deal in χάρις: see note on χάρισμα, ι. 7), fo grant by way of grace, in unmerited favour (ef. esp. Rom. viii. 32, Gal. iii. 18).
Ver. 13. ἃ καὶ Aakovpev—the vb. of 6, 7 (see note) : there opposed to µυστήριον, here to εἰδῶμεν (cf. John 11. 11)—“* which things indeed we speak out”; knowing these great things of God, we tell them (cf. John xviii. 20; also. 2 Cor. iv. 2 ff., Luke xii. 2 f., Acts xxvi. 16): Ἑ. has no esoteric doctrines, to be whispered to a select circle; if the τέλειοι and πνεν- ματικοὶ alone comprehend his Gospel, that is not due to reserve on his part. “The καὶ λαλοῦμεν makes it clear that P. does not mean (in 6 and iii. 1 f.) to distinguish two sorts of Gospel; his preaching has always the entire truth for its content, but expressed suitably to the growth of his hearers”’ (Hn.).