ρω Ὁ « 2 κ e esas Wa von Pp \] 9 » 3 xan yO vytmtois ἐν Χριστῷ: 2. "Ὑάλα spits " ἐπότισα, καὶ] οὗ "βρῶμα 7 ή . 4 \ > , > ONE ον λουπωὠ 5 ἐκ η γὰρ ἠδύνασθε 20: Gal. Ta αν a 9 > = > ς ο) - 4 iw” 4 , ον πεοα γὰρ ἐν ὑμιν 'ζῆλος καὶ ‘Epis καὶὃ διχοστασίαι͵” οὐχὶ * σαρκι- πυρ, Πες. v.13; Mt. x1. 25, xxi. 16; Lk. x. 21; Ps. xviii. 8. c ix. 7; Heb. v.12 f; 1 Pet. ii. 2. d xii. 13 Rom, xii. 20; Rev. xiv. 85 Mt. x. 42. e In sing., viii. 8, 13, x. 3; Rom. xiv. 15, 20; Jo. iv. 34 {(αλλ᾽ ουδε), iv. 3; 2 Cor. vii. 12; Gal. ii. 3; Acts xix. 2; Lk. xxili. 15. g In this sense, 2 Cor. 1. 12,x. 4; 1 Pet.ii.1r. h In the like sense, Col. iii. 11; Heb ix. 16, x. 18; Ja. iii. 16; 2 Pet. ii. rz i Rom. xiii. 13; 2 Cor. xii. 20; Gal.v.20; Sir. xl. 5. ζηλος alone, in this use, Acts v. 17, xiii. 45; Ja. ili. 14, 16. ερις, See 1. 11.
tf? 3 ή * ” A 3: ANN οὔτε” ἔτι" νῦν δύνασθε, ἔτι γὰρ «σαρκικοίὃ ἐστε:
1 Om. και SABGP, 17, vg. syr. οΟΡ. Ins. και DGL, etc.: Western interpolation
Σεδννασθε: all uncc. but DL. Yet all but C have ηδυνηθην in ver. 1.
3ou δε: all unce. but L. 4 Bom. ett, bracketed by Lachm. and W.H.
5 D*G read σαρκινοι (twice), in conformity with ver. 1; G reads, perversely σαρκικοις there: instances of Western license.
6 Om. «kat διχοστασιαι alluncce. but DGL. Harmonistic importation from Gal. v. 20.
is one of standpoint, not of degree: in are engaged (5-17). For this building’s
the σάρκινος the original “ flesh” re- mains (a sort of excuse, as in Rom. vii. 14); the σαρκικὸς manifests its disposi- tion. Both words may, or may not (ix. 11, 2 Cor. iii. 3), connote the sinful, ac- cording to the σὰρξ in question.
The apposed ὡς νηπίοις ἐν Χριστῷ softens, almost tenderly, the censure; the Cor. are “‘in Christ’; they possess, in a measure, His Spirit; but they are “ babes in Christ,” not fairly grown out of “the flesh” (cf. Gal. ν. 13-18); the new nature in them is still confronted with the old. The νήπιοι are the opp. of the τέλειοι (ii. 6; see other parls.). “T could not” suggests that Paul had attempted to carry his Cor. converts further, but had failed.
Ver. 2. ‘(Since you were babes), I gave you milk to drink, not meat:”’ a common figure for the simpler and more solid forms of instruction contrasted (see varls.). The teaching of 1 Thess. (see ii. 7 f.) is γάλα as compared with the βρῶμα of Rom. or Coloss.; so the Syn- optics, in comparison with the Fourth Gospel. The zeugma ἐπότισα .. . βρῶμα is natural in Paul’s conversational style; see ix. 7, per contra.—otmw γὰρ ἐδύνασθε: “for not yet (while I was with you) were you equal to it”. This absolute use of δύναµαι ( = δυνατός εἰμι) is cl., but 4./. for the N.T.; the tense impf., of continued state.
§ 9. Gop’s RIGHTS IN THE CHURCH, ili. 3-9. One idea runs through this chapter and into the next,—that of God’s Church, God’s temple at Corinth, in whose construction so many various builders
sake, and because it is His, God beats down the pride of human craft, making all things, persons, times, serve His people, while they serve Christ, as Christ serves God (18-23). To God His ser- vants are responsible; it is His to judge and commend them (iv. 1-5). Thus the thought that the Gospel is ‘‘ God’s power, God’s wisdom,” pursued since i. 18, is brought to bear upon the situation in Corinth. God who sends the message of the cross, admitting in its communica- tion no mixture of human wisdom (ch. 1.), chose and inspired His own instruments for its impartation (ch. ii.). What pre- sumption in the Cor. parties to appro- priate the diff. Christian leaders, and inscribe their names upon rival banners!