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Joseph., Ant., vii., 10.5; Philo, Leg. ad. Gat., § 11; Plato, Leges, x. 903 E.
Gen. xlii. 33. c x. 13; 2 Cor. xii. 6.
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* (virep) a, NABCP 17, 31, 73.
See W.H., Notes on Selected Readings, p. 157.
Macc. ix. 22. Also b Cf. Jo. xiii. 35;
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Referring to Scripture at large.
° Om. Φρονειν SW*ABD"G, latt. vg., Or., Aug., Ambrst. scCDcLP cop. syrr., Cyr. insert (? Alexandrian) ; Ath., φυσιουσθαι.
ποῦ σκότους, “the secrets hidden in the darkness” (res tenebris occultatas, Bz.) —not necessarily evil things (see Rom. ii. 16, 2 Cor. iv. 6), but things impene- trable to present light.—Chief amongst these, ‘‘the Lord will make manifest (havepdoer) the counsels of the hearts”’. These God (and with Him Christ, 6 ἀνακρίνων: 4) already searches out (Rom: viii. 27; Ps. cxxxix., etc.); then He will make plain to men, about themselves and each other, what was dark before. The καρδία is the real self, the ‘ hidden,” “inward man” (Eph. iii. 16 f., 1 Pet. iii. 4, and other parls.), known absolutely to Godalone (cor hominis crypta est, Bz.) ; its ‘“ counsels” are those self-communings and purposings which determine action and belong to the essence of character.— ‘**And then (not before) the (due) praise will come (ὁ ἔπαινος γενήσεται) to each from God (not from human lips).” ἀπὸ
πτ. Θεοῦ for it is on God’s behalf that
Christ will judge; His commendation is alone of value (Rom. ii. 29; John v. 44). The Church is God’s field and temple
(iii. ο ff.); all work wrought in it awaits
His approval. ἑκάστῳ recalls thé lesson
~of ili. 8, 11-13, respecting the discrimina-
ting and individual character of Divine rewards. ‘‘ Praise” ambitious Gr. teachers coveted: let them seek it from God. ** Praise”’ the Cor. partisans lavished on ‘their admired leaders: this is God’s pre- rogative, let them check their imperti- nent eulogies. Enough was said in iii. 15, 17, of condemned work; P. is thinking here of his true συνεργοί (1 f.), who with himself labour and hope for approval at the Day of Christ; little need they reck of the criticisms of the hour.
613. DIscIPLES ABOVE THEIR MASTER, iv. 6-13. What the Ap. has written, from iii. 3 onwards, turns on the relations between himself and Apollos; but it has a wide application to the state of feeling ‘within the Church (6 f.). To such ex- travagance of self-satisfaction and con-
ceit in their new teachers have the Cor. been carried, that one would think they had dispensed with the App., and entered already on the Messianic reign (8). In comparison with them, P. and his com- rades present a sorry figure, as victims marked for the world’s sport—famished, beaten, loaded with disgrace, while their disciples flourish! (9-13.)
Ver. 6. Tatra δὲ κ.τ.λ. (δὲ meta- batikon, of transition): ‘Now these things I have adapted (in the way I have put them) to myself and Apollos”.— µετα-σχηματίζω (see parls.), to change the dress, or form of presentment (σχΏμα), of anything. P. has put in a specific personal way—speaking in concreto, ex- empli gratia—what he might have ex- pressed more generally; he has done this 8 ὑμᾶς, “for your better instruc- tion,”—not because he and Ap. needed the admonition. The rendering “I have in a figure transferred”’ (E.V.), suggests that the argument of iii. 3-iv. 5 had no teal connexion with P. and A., and was aimed at others than their partisans—an erroneous implication: see Introd. to Div. I. P. writes in the σχῆμα Kat ἐξοχήν, aiming through the Apollonian party at all the warring factions, and at the factious spirit in the Church; his reproaches fall on the “ puffed up’? fol- lowers, not upon their unconsenting chiefs (4). We found certain other teachers, active at Cor. in the absence of P. and Α., rebuked in iii. 11-17; the Cor. will easily read between the lines. This μετασχηματισμὸς is ‘id genus in quo per quandam suspicionem quod non dicimus accipi volumus”’ (Quintilian, [πι stit., ix., 2).—AmodAdv, the preferable reading here and in Tit. iii. 13, like the gen. of i. 12, ili. 4, is acc. of Attic 2nd decl. ; ᾽᾿Απολλώ (3rd) is attested in Acts ΧΙΧ. I.