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axi.28;2 τ ο ο τω 4 3 3 πι 94952 8 Coo vig, Top’ "δοκιμάσει: 14. εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον ” μένει" ὃ μμ 8, xill. 5; ν ss < . rf 2 x Λ y te ο οσο μισθὸν λήψεται: 15. εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον ” κατακαήσεται, ” ζημιωθή
ος σεται, αὐτὸς δὲ σωθήσεται, ” οὕτω δὲ "ὡς διὰ "πυρός. 16. "οὐκ
Zech. xili.* οἴδατε ὅτι " ναὸς Θεοῦ ἐστε καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ "οἰκεῖ 4 "ἐν 11.
W Xi, ταν Cor. iii. 11, ix.9; Rom. ix. 11; Heb. x. 34, xii. 27, xiii. 1, 14; Jo. iii. 36, vi. 27, ix. 41. w Ver. 8.
x Mt. iii. 12, xiii. 30, 40; 2 Pet. iii. το; Jo. xv. 6. Mt. xvi. 26 and parls., for this sense; cf. 2 Cor. vii. g; Ph. iii. 8. z iv. 1, ix. 26; Eph. v. 28, 33; Ph. iii. 17; 1 Th. ii. 4; Jas. ii. 12; Lk. xxiv 24. a Ten times in this Ep.—v. 6, etc.; Rom. vi. 16; Jas. iv. 4. b vi. 19; 2 Cor. vi. 16; cf. Eph. ii. 21 f.; also 2 Th. ii. 4; Rev. iii. τα, xi. i; Jo. ii. το; Mt. xxvi. 61. c Rom. vii. 18, 20, viii. 9, 11; 1 Tim. vi. 16.
lro πυρ αυτο δοκιµ.: ABCP, 17, 37, 73, other minn., syrsch. Om. αυτο NDL, etc., latt. vg. sah. cop.: Western.
Σμενεῖ: latt. (manserit), Aug., Ambrst., sah. cop. So Lachm., Tisch., Al., El.,
W.H., and nearly all modern edd.
Σεποικοδομησεν: all uncc. but B°C. See Wr., p. 84. 4 ev υμιν οικει (?) BP, 17 (a good group); preferred by W.H. in ἐαέ.
altered vb. requires with it αὐτό, to re- call the object τὸ ἔργον. Mr. and El. attach the pronoun to το πρ, “the fire itself,” but with pointless emphasis. Others avoid the pleonasm by construing ἑκάστου τὸ ἔργον at the beginning as a nominativus pendens (‘as to each man’s work’’), resembling that of John xv. 2; but the qualification that follows, ὁποῖόν ἐστιν, makes this unlikely: cf. Gal. ii. 6, for the interpolated interr. clause.—8oxt- µάζω is to assay (see LXX parls.),— suggested by the “gold, silver’? above: ‘“probabit, non purgabit. Hic locus ignem purgatorium non modo non fovet, sed plane extinguit” (Bg.).—Exaoros, thrice repeated in vv. 10-13, with solemn individualising emphasis.
Vv. 14, 15. The opp. issues of the flery assay are stated under parl. hypo- theses: et τινος τὸ ἔργον ... pevet.- . εἴ τινος τὸ ἔργον κατακαήσεται, “If any one’s work shall abide . . . shall be burned up”. The double ind. with εἰ balances the contrasted suppositions, without signifying likelihood either way : for the opposed vbs., cf. xiii. 8, 13; pevet recalls ὑπομενεῖ of Mal. iii. 2.--ὃ ἐποι- κοδόµησεν (wanting augment: usage varies in this vb.; Wr., p. 83) reminds us that the work examined was built on the one foundation (10 Π.).--- μισθὸν λήμψεται and ζηµιωθήσεται are the cor- responding αροάοςες,--μισθὸν being car- ried. over to the second of the parl. clauses (Mr., Gd., Lt., Ed.): “He will get a reward... will be mulcted (of -t)”’.—£yptd@ retains in pass. its acc. of thing, as a vb. taking double acc.; de- rived from ζημία (opp. of κέρδος: cf. Phil. iil. 7), it signifies to fine, inflict forfeit (in pass., suffer forfeit) of what one pos-
sessed, or might have possessed. “' αὐτὸς δέ- ορροδεά to µισθός: his reward shall be lost, but his person saved” (Lt.); αὐτὸς is nearly syn. with the ψυχἠ of Matt. xvi. 25 f., etc. The man built on the foundation, though kis work proves culpably defective: σωθήσεται promises him the σωτηρία of Christ’s heavenly kingdom (see i. 18, and other parls.). Such a minister saves himself, but not his hearers: the opp. result to that of ix. 27, etc. αὐτὸς δὲ σωθήσεται, οὕτως δὲ ὡς διὰ πυρός (δὲ correcting δέ, as in ii. 6)—‘‘ yet so (saved) as through fire,”— like Lot fleeing from Sodom; his salva- tion is reduced to a minimum: “He rushes out through the flame, leaving behind the ruin of his work . . . for which, proved to be worthless, he re- ceives no pay” (Bt.), getting through “‘scorched and with the marks of the flame’’ upon him (Lt.); ‘‘s’il est sauvé, ce ne peut étre qu’en échappant a travers les flammes, et grace 4 la solidité du fondement” (Gd.); to change the figure, “ut naufragus mercator, amissa merce et lucro, servatus per undas”’ (Bg.). For the prp., in local sense, see Gm., and Wr., p. 473; διὰ πυρός, proverbial for a hairbreadth escape (see Lt. ad loc.; Eurip., Andr., 487; Elec., 1182,and LXX parls.). The διὰ has been read imstru- mentally, “ by means of fire,”—sc. the fire of purgatory (see Lt.); an idea foreign to this scene. Cm., by a dreadful in- version of the meaning, reads the διὰ as ἐν wmup{—‘ will be preserved in fire!” (σώζω nowhere has this sense of τηρέω): εἰπὼν Σωθήσεται, οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ τὴν ἐπίτασιν τῆς τιμωρίας ᾖνίξατο. For other interpretations, see Mr.