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vii. 25, in
this sense; nine times besides in P.; also in Mt., Lk., Heb., 1 Pet., Rev.
1 Of moral judgments,
xv. 15; 2 Cor. xi. 12, xii. 20; Gal. ii. 17; Ph. iii. 9; 1 Pet. i. 7; six times in Rev.; Acts xxiv. 5.
m Cf. Acts xix. 27. Έιμι εις, h.l. in this sense.
q iii. 2; Acts xix. 2. Mace. iv. 41, etc. See note below. v. 4; 1 Tit. iii. 16; Acts xiii. 39.
1ζητειτε, SACDEGer-P: adopted in many minuscc. Doubtful whether the -τε (imperative) is a gram-
minusce. ; so latt. vg. cop. syrr.
n See ii. 14. ο See ii. 13. p See i. 8.
r Acts v. 2, xii, 12, xiv. 6 only; Lev. v. 1; Job xxvii. 6; 1 Macc. iv. 21; 2 s vi. 11; Rom. iti. 4 (Ps. 1. 6), v.9; Gal. ii. 17, iii. 11, 24,
ἵητειται, BL and’ most
matical emendation, or a mere itacism; neither a clear Western nor Alexandrian reading, DG and AG, in each case, being deserted by their companion verss.
visioning the establishment. Responsible not to his fellows, but to ‘‘the Lord,” his high trust demands a strict account (Luke xii. 41-48).—On µνστ. Θεοῦ, see notes to ii. 7, 9 f.: the phrase implies not secrets of the master kept from other servants, but secrets vevealed to them through God’s dispensers, to whose judg- ment and fidelity the disclosure is com- mitted (cf. ii. 6, iii. 1).
Ver. 2. ὧδε λοιπὸν (proinde igitur) ζητεῖται, ἐν τοῖς οἰκονόμοις κ.τ.λ.: “In such case, it is further sought in stewards (to be sure) that one be found faithful”. ὧδε gathers up the position given to ‘“‘us” in νετ. 1; ἐν τοῖς οἰκονόμοις is therefore pleonastic, but repeated for distinctness and by reference to the well- understood rule for stewards (Luke xii. 48). λοιπὸν brings in the supplement to an imperfect representation: it is not enough to be steward—a faithful steward is looked for (an echo of Luke xii. 42 f.). ζητεῖται ... ἵνα resembles παρακαλῶ ἵνα, i. 10 (see note): the telic force of theconj. has not disappeared; one ‘‘seeks”’ a thing in order to “‘ find”’ it.
Ver.3. ἐμοὶ δὲ cis ἐλαχιστόν ἐστιν ἵνα κ.τ.λ.: ‘ For myself however it amounts to a very small thing that by you I should be put to trial, or by a human day (of judgment).” Fidelity is required of stewards: yes, but (8€) who is the judge of that fidelity ? Not you Cor., nor even my own good conscience, but the Lord only (4: cf. Rom. xiv. 4); P. corrects the false inference that might be drawn from iii. 22. ἐμοὶ δὲ takes up the general truth just stated, to apply it as a matter between me and you. P. is being put on his trial at Cor.—his talents appraised, his motives scrutinised, his administra- tion canvassed with unbecoming pre- sumption. For eis in this somewhat
rare, but not necessarily Hebraistic sense, cf. vi. 16, Acts xix. 27; see Wr., p. 229. ἵνα . « . ἀνακριθῶ (construction more unclassical than in 1) equals τὸ ἄνακρι- @7vac—unless the clause should be ren- dered, ‘‘that I should have myself tried by you,’—as though P. might have challenged the judgment of the Cor. (see ix. 2, 2 Cor. iii. 1, xii. 11) but dismissed the thought. ᾿Ανακρίνω (see note, ii. 15) speaks not of the final judgment (κρίνω, 5, ν. 12, εἴο.), but of an examination, investigation preliminary to it. The “human (ἀνθρωπίνης, cf. ii. 13) day,” of which P. thinks lightly, is man’s judg- ment—that of any man, or all men together; he reserves his case for ‘the day (of the Lord’’: see i. 8).—GAX’ οὐδὲ ἐμαυτὸν ἀνακρίνω: “nay, I do not even try myself!’”? The GAN’ οὐδέ (cf. iii. 3) brings forward another suggestion, con- trary to that just rejected (ἵνα id’ ὑμῶν ἀνακρ.), to be rejected in its turn. In another sense P. enjoins self-judgment, in xi. 28-32; and in ii. 16 he credited the “spiritual man”’ with power ‘to try all things”. ‘O ἑαυτὸν ἀνακρίνων, the self- trier, is one who knows no higher or surer tribunal than his own conscience; Christ’s Ap. stands in a very diff. position from this. This transition from Cor. judgment to self-judgment shows that no formal trial was in question, such as Weizsicker supposes had been mooted at Cor.; arraigned before the bar of public opinion, P. wishes to say that he rates its estimate eis ἐλαχιστὸν in com- parison with that of his heavenly Master.