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Rev. iv. 2, xxi. 16.
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given to all Christians, constituting them such (see i. 4), to the Ap. a special and singular “ grace was given,” “ according ιο”. which he “laid a _ foundation,” whereon the Church at Cor. rests: see the like contrast in Eph. iii. 2-9, iv. 7-16; and for Paul’s specific gift as founder, xv. το, 2 Cor. iii. 5 ff., Rom. i. 1-5, xv. 15 fff. The office of the founder is his own, and incommunicable: “you have not many fathers ”’ (iv. 15).
σοφὸς is a correct attributive to ἄρχι- τέκτων: see σοφία (τ. ἀρχόντωγ), Π. 6, and note; so in the LXX, Exod. xxxv. 31, Isa. iii. 3, it characterizes the crafts- man’s skill; in Arist., Eth. Nic., σοφία is the ἀρετὴ τέχνης--Ιπάεεά this was its primitive sense (see Ed.). The Church architect (Christ, in the first instance, Matt. xvi. 18) is endowed with the σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ, the νοῦς Χριστοῦ (ii. 6-16; cf. 2 Cor. iii. 4-6, Rom. xv. 16-20). The Gr. ἀρχιτέκτων was not a designer of plans on paper; he was like the old cathedral builders, the master-mason, developing his ideas in the material ‘As a wise master-builder, I laid a foundation (θεµέλιον ἔθηκα), but another builds there- upon” (ἄλλος δὲ ἐποικοδομεῖ): P. knew that by God’s grace his part was done wisely ; let his successors see to theirs. Not ‘‘ the foundation ’”’—that will be de- fined immediately (115): P. contrasts him- self as foundation-layer with later work- men ; hence the vbs. are respectively past and pr. The θεµέλιον, laid out once for all by the ἀρχιτέκτων, determines the site and ground-plan of the edifice (cf Eph. ii, 20).—With the distributive ἄλλος cf. ἕκαστος (11): if Apollos, by himself, were intended, ἐποικοδομεῖ would have to be read as impf. (for ἐπῳκ., was build- ing : cf. aor., 14), since ke is not now at Cor. Many Christian teachers are busy there (iv. 15). For this indef. ἄλλος, cf. xil. 8 ff., xv. 39; and for ἐγώ . . « ἄλλος
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δέ, Luke ix. το, John iv. 37, xiv. 16, xxi. 18. For the compound vb., see parls. ; ἐπ- points to the basis, which gives the standard and measure to all subsequent work.—Hence the warning, ἕκαστος δὲ Βλεπέτω πῶς κ.τελ.: ‘But let each man see (to it) how he is building thereupon!” Working upon the foundation, he must follow the lines laid down; he must use fit material. Not “ how he ἐς to build” (as in vii. 32, aor. sbj.), but ‘‘ how he zs. a-building”’ (pr. ind.)—the work is going on. For the moods of the Indirect Ques- tion, see Wr., pp. 373 ff., Bn., §§ 341-356.
Ver. ττ is a parenthetical comment on θεµέλιον: As to the foundation, that is settled ; the workman has to build upon it, not to shift it, nor add to it.—@euéArov γὰρ ἄλλον οὖδεὶς δύναται θεῖναι παρὰ κετλ.: ‘For another foundation none can lay, beside (other than. παρά, pos- sibly suggesting also in competition with ; or contrary to) that which is laid down, which is JEsus Curist ;” other builders there are beside the architect, but no other ground for them to build upon.— κεῖμαι serves as pf. pass. to τίθηµι (Phil. i. 16, etc.), connoting fixity of sttuation (positum est), and so of destination, as in Luke ii. 34. The work of the Apostolic founders is done, once and for ever; so long as the Church lasts, men will build on what they laid ἀονη.---θεµέλιον, here masc. (read as adj., sc. λίθον), as in 2 Tim. ii. 19, Heb. χι. το, Rev. xxi. 14, 10, and sometimes in LXX; neut. in Acts xvi. 26, as in the κοινή, and commonly in LXX.—és éortv—continuative, rather than definitive (as in 5): ‘“ There is but one foundation, and it is Jesus Christ” ; cf. ii. 2, XV. 1-11, etc.—Inoots Χριστός (not X. Ἰ., nor 6 X.), the actual his- torical person, not any doctrine or argu- ment about Him —‘“ Jesus” revealed and known as “' Christ’: see Acts ii. 22, 36, xvii. 3, etc., for the formation of the