Ver. 3. Αλλ) οὐδὲ ἔτι viv δύνασθε: μα Nay, but not even yet (after this further interval), at the present time, are you strong enough (immo ne nunc quidem adhuc potestis, Bz.), for you are yet carnal”. For ἔτι, cf. xv. 17, Gal. i. το, v. 11; for σαρκικοί, see note on σάρκινοι (x). The Cor. are weak (otherwise than in x. 28) just where they think themselves strong (viii. I), v2z., in spiritual appre- hension; their gifts of “word and know- ledge”’ are a source of weakness, through the conceit and strife they engender. The add οὐδὲ clause, with its strong disjunctives, is better joined to ver. 3 (Al., W.H., Sm.) than tover. 2. The foregoing οὕπω yap ἐδύνασθε sufficiently explained the οὐκ ἠδυνήθην of Paul’s previous minis- try (1); οὐδὲ ἔτι viv δύνασθε describes the present condition of the Cor. (3f.). It is seluctantly and with misgiving that the
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Rom. iii. 5, vii. 22.
m Lk. ix. 57, 59, 61; xi. 15 f.
32; Gal. i. 11, 11. 15;
n See i. 12. Ο ανθρωποι, ver. 21, i. 25,
etc.; frequent in P. in such disparaging use, Heb. vii. 28; Acts xiv. 11; Jo. iii.19; Mt. x. 17, XV.
ϱ (Isa. xxix, 13); Gen. vi. 5 f.; Isa. ii. 22, etc. il. 7; Col. i. 7, 23, 25; 1 Tim. iv. 6. 13, Xill, 12, 48, xiv. 1, 77 7, xvii. 12, 34, xviii. 8.
p In this sense, 2 Cor. iii. 6, vi. 4, xi. 15, 23; Eph. q See i. 21; also, in absolute use, 2 Cor. iv. 13; Acts viii.
*D*G read σαρκινοι (twice), in conformity with ver. 1; G reads, perversely, σαρκικοις there: instances of Western license.
* ov (before ανθρ.), S*ABC, 17. ουχι, DLP ; Western and Syrian : parl. to ver. 3. ανθρωποι: all uncc. but NcLP (Syrian) with syrvtr., which carry over
σαρκικοι from ver. 3.
‘ru (twice), N*AB, 17, latt. vg. eth., Lat. ΕΕ. τις, CDGLP, syrutr. cop., Chr., etc.; seemingly a Western emendation, but not followed by Lat. cdd.
5AmwoXtAws... MavdAos, inthis order, all unce. but DbL, which are followed by the bulk of minuscc. and syruttr., reversing the order to guard P.’s dignity.
δτι δε εστιν: SABCP, 17.
Western and Syrian txts. om. εστιν.
7 All unce., but DbcLP, om. αλλ᾽ y,—a Syrian insertion,
Apostle later in the Ep. enters into deep doctrine (βρῶμα, cf. note on ii. 6).— ὅπου γὰρ ἐν ὑμῖν κ.τ.λ., “for where (not when, nor whereas—Vg. cum, Mr. quandoquidem) amongst you there is jealousy and strife’: this seems to limit the censure (cf. xv. 12, 34); the use of party-names was universal (i. 12), but not due in all cases to ζῆλος καὶ Epis. Otherwise the ὅπου clause must be read as a general principle applied to the Cor. = ὅπου yap ζῆλος καὶ Epis, ὡς ἐν ἡμῖν--ᾱ construction inconsistent with the position of ἐν ὑμῖν. So far as these evils exist, the readers are σαρκικοί, not πνευµατικοί. For ἔρις, see note toi. 11; ζῆλος is the emulation, then envy, which is a chief cause of ἔρις. These are companion ‘works of the flesh” in Gal. v. 20: for the honourable sense of ἵθλος, prevailing in cl. Gr., see 2 Cor. vii. 7, etc.; also Trench, Syn., § xxvi.; zealous and jealous reproduce the diff. Paul seems to hear the Cor. denying the allegation made in 3a,”Ert σαρκικοί ἐστε, and so puts it to them again asa question prefaced by the reason (and limitation), ὅπον ἐν ὑμῖν ζῆλος, κ.τ.λ., and with the further challenge, οὐχί -.. καὶ κατὰ ἄνθρωπον περιπατεῖτε; To “walk according to man” (non secun- dum Deum, humano more, Bg.) is to behave as men are apt to do—the σάρκινοι, the ψΨυχικοί. This Pauline phrase (confined to the epp. of this gtoup) has κατὰ Θεὸν for its tacit anti-