Vv. 6, 7. The grammatical obj. of
ὁ Θεὸς 'ηὔξανεν ' 7. ὥστε οὔτε 6 8. ὁ " φυτεύων δὲ καὶ 6
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*épdteuga, ᾽Απολλὼς ἃ ἐπότισεν, ἀλλ᾽
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Σφυτεύων ἐστί τι οὔτε ὁ * ποτίζων,
id 4 ποτίζων * ἕν εἴσιν
" μισθὸν λήψεται κατὰ τὸν " ἴδιον ” κόπον.
t Neut., in this: u vii. 7, Xv. 23, 38; Gal. vi. 5,9; v ix. 17f.; Rom. iv. 41; 1 Tim. w xv. 58, and eight
this sentence has been given by the fore- going context, viz., the Cor. Church of believers (cf. iv. 15).—®vrevw Paul uses besides only in ix.7; his regular meta- phor in this connexion is that of ver. ro. “Planting’’ and ‘watering’ happily picture the relative services of P. and Ap. Ποτίζω, to give drink, to irrigate, may have for obj. men (2, xii. 13, etc.), animals (Luke xiii. 15), or plants. In νετ. 2, Paul was the ποτίζων γάλα. The vb. takes a double acc., of person and thing (Wr., p. 284).—The ἀλλὰ of the last clause goes beyond a mere con- trast (δέ) between God and men in their several parts, excluding the latter from the essential part: ‘‘ but God—He only, and no other—made it to grow”. The planting and watering of Christ’s servants were occasions for the exercise of God’s. vitalising energy. While the former vbs. are aor., gathering up the work of the two ministers into single successive acts, ηὔξανεν is impf. of continued activity: ‘“God was (all the while) making it to grow.” Several of the Ff.—Aug. e.g.— saw in ποτίζειν the baptism, in φυτεύειν the instruction of catechumens,—* illus- trating a general fault of patristic exe- gesis, the endeavour to attach a technical sense to words in the N.T. which had not yet acquired this meaning” (Lt.).— ὥστε, itague (and so, so then), with ind. (cf. vii. 38, xi. 27, xiv. 22), points out a result immediately flowing from what has been said: ‘tthe planter” and ‘‘ the waterer,” in comparison with “‘ the Lord ”’ who dispensed their powers and “ God” who makes their plants to grow, are reduced to nothing ; “' God who gives the growth” (qui dat vim crescendi, Bz.) alone remains. To the subject, 6 αὐξ- άνων Θεός, the predicate τὰ πάντα ἐστὶν is tacitly supplied from the negative clauses foregoing.—For ἐστίν τι (any- thing of moment), cf. Gal. ii. 6, vi. 3, Acts v. 36, and note on ti εἰδέναι, ii. 2. The pr. ptp. with 6 becomes, virtually, a (timeless) substantive—the planter, waterer, Increaser (Wr., Ῥ. 444).
‘6-— το.
9. Θεοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν "συνεργοί: Θεοῦ 7 γεώργιον, Θεοῦ " οἰκοδομή
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10. Kata τὴν "χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν "δοθεῖσάν por, ds ” copds 5 ἀρχιτέκτων 3θεμέλιον Ἱτέθεικα, ἄλλος δὲ * errorkoBopel > ἕκαστος
y Η.Ι. in N.T.; Prov. xxiv. 5, xxx. i. 16; γεωργος, Jo. xv. 1; -γειν, Heb. vi. 7. a See i. 4. ο H.l.in N.T.; cf. Isa. iii. 3; Sir. xxxviii. 27; 2 Macc. ii. 29. ] 29. For θεµ., see also Rom. xv. 20; Eph. ii. 20; 1 Tim. vi. 19; 2 Tim. ii. 19; Heb. vi. 1.
crete), Eph. ii. 21; also Mt. xxiv. 1. Exod. xxxv. Io.
ii. 20; Col. ii. 7; Jude 20; cf. Rom. xv. 20,