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11---13.
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μα πας
Ζτα v. 8.
ὅτι ἐν πι Else- where
4 a ‘ ο” Γπυρὶ " ἀποκαλύπτεται" καὶ ἑκάστου τὸ ἔργον 'ὁποῖόν ἐστι τὸ «Ετας»,
t. Vi. 30, etc.
απ ΝΕΤ Mites Exod. ν. 12, XV. 7; Isa. ν. 24. © xi. 19, xiv. 25; Ph. i. 13: Mk. vi. 14; Lk. viii. 17; Acts
vii. 13. p See i. 8. q See i. 11.
i. 7; 2 Pet. iii. 7; Jude 7; frequent in Rev. and Mt.; Mk. ix. 43, 48 f.; Jo. xv. 6.
t Gal. ii. 6; 1 Th. 1.9; Acts xxvi. 29; Ja. i. 24.
Ίχρυσιον, αργνριον: 38 (C in latter inst., defective in form
Or., Bas. B, eth. ins. και; so W.H. mg.
name; and for this, with Paul the rarer, order, cf. ii. 2, Rom. v. 15, xvi. 25, etc.,— also Heb. xiii. 8; in each instance ¥esus Christ connotes the recognised facts as to His life, death, etc. (cf. note on i. 2). Ver. 12. After the interjected caution to let the foundation alone, P. turns to the superstructure, to which the work of his coadjutors belongs; δὲ indicates this transition.—ei δέ τις ἐποικοδομεῖ, εἰ with ind. (as in 14 f. etc.),—a supposition in matter of fact, while ἐὰν with sbj. (as in iv. 15) denotes a likely contingency. The doubled prp. ἐπί (with acc.)—an idiom characterising later Gr., which loves emphasis—implies growth by way of ac- cession: “if any one is building-on,—onto the foundation ”’; contrast ἐπὶ with dat. in Eph. ii. 20. The material superimposed by the present Cor. builders is of two opposite kinds, rich and durable or paltry and perishing: ‘gold, silver, costly stones—wood, hay, straw,”—thrown to- gether “in lively a@ovvSerov” (Μτ.). The latter might serve for poor frail huts, but not for the temple of God (17). --λίθοι τίµιοι, the marbles, etc., used in rearing noble houses; but possibly Isa. liv. τι f. (cf. Rev. xxi. 18-21) is in the writer’s mind. The figure has been in- terpreted as relating (a) to the diff. sorts of persons brought into the Church (Pelagius, Bg., Hf.), since the Cor. be- lievers constitute the Θεοῦ οἰκοδομή (9), the ναὸς Θεοῦ (16)—‘‘ my work are you in the Lord” (ix. i.; cf. Eph. ii. 20 ff., 2 Tim. ii. 19 ff., 1 Peter ii. 4 f.; also the striking parl. in Mal. iii. τ ff., iv. 1); (6) to the moral fruits resulting from the labours of various teachers, the character of Church members, this being the specific object of the final judgment (2 Cor. ν. το, Rom, ii. 5-11; οὗ. 1 Cor. xiii. 13) and that which measures the work of their ministers (1 Thess. ii. το ff., etc.) —so Or., Cm., Aug., lately Osiander and Gd.; (c) to the doctrines of the diff. teachers, since for this they are primarily answerable and here lay the point of,
τ In like connexion, 2 Th. i. 8; Heb. x, 27, xii. 29; 1 Pet.
8 See ii. 10.
73, Clem.
present divergence (cf. viii. το f., Rom. xiv. το 2 Cor. xi. 1 ff., 13 Ἡ,, αἱ etc.)—so Clem. Al., and most moderns. The three views are not really dis- crepant : teaching shapes character, works express faith ; unsound preaching attracts the bad hearer and makes him worse, sound preaching wins and improves the good (see i. 18, 24; 2 Tim. iv. 3; John ili, 18 ff., x. 26 f.). ‘The materials of this house may denote doctrines mould- ing persons,” or “‘even persons moulded by doctrines” (Ev.),—* the doctrine ex- nibited in a concrete form” (Lt.).
Ver. 13. “The work of each (ἑκάστον resuming the ἕκαστος of 10) will become manifest:’’ while the Wheat and Tares are in early growth (Matt. xiii. 24 ff.}, they are indistinguishable; one man’s work is mixed up with another’s—“ for the Day will disclose (it)”.—‘H ἡμέρα can only mean Christ’s Fudgment Day : see parls., esp. i. 8, iv. 3 ff., and notes; also Rom. ii. 16, Acts xvii. 31, Matt. xxv. Ig. “The day” suggests (cf. 1 Thess. v. 2 ff., Rom. xiii. 11 ff.) the hope of day- light upon dark problems of human τε- sponsibility. But this searching is figured as the scrutiny of five, which at once detects and destroys useless matter: ὅτι ἐν πυρὶ ἀποκαλύπτεται, “ because it (the Day) is revealed in fire”. For ἀποκαλύπ- τεται (pr., implying certainty, perhaps nearness), see notes on i. 7, Ἡ. το--- a supernatural, unprecedented “day,” dawning not like our mild familiar sun- rise, but “in” splendour of judgment “fire”: cf. 2 Thess. i. 8. This image comes from the O.T. pictures of a Theo- phany: Dan. vii. g f., Mal. iv. 1, Isa. ΧΧΧ. 27, Ixiv. 1 Π., etc.—kat ἑκάστου τὸ ἔργον ὁποῖόν ἐστι κ.τ.λ.: “and each man’s work, of what kind it is, —the fire will prove it”. The pleonastic αὐτὸ is due to a slight anacoluthon: the sentence begins as though it were to end, ‘‘the fire will show”; φανερώσει is, however, replaced by the stronger δοκιμάσει suitable to wtp, and this