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us, the apostles, last ”—at the end of the show, in the meanest place (for the use of ἔσχατος, cf. Mark ix. 35; for the sentiment, xv. 1ο below)—‘‘as (men) doomed to death”. One imagines a grand procession, on some day of public festival ; in its rear march the criminals on their way to the arena, where the populace will be regaled with their suf- ferings. Paul’s experience in Ephesus suggests the picture (cf. xv. 32); that of 2 Cor. ii. 14 is not dissimilar. ‘ The app.”’ (cf. ix. 1, xv. 5 ff.), not P. alone, are set in this disgrace: Acts i.-xii. illustrates what is said; possibly recent (unrecorded) sufferings of prominent mis- sionaries gave added point to the com- parison. ᾿Απο-δείκνυμι (to show - off) takes its disparaging sense from the connexion, like δειγµατίζω in Col. ii. 15. ἐπιθανατίους (later Gr.) = ἐπὶ τ. θάνατον dvras.—Srti θέατρον ἐγενήθημεν τῷ κόσμφ does not give the reason for the above ἀπόδειξις, but re-affirms the fact with a view to bring forward the spectators; this clause apposed to the foregoing, in which ὅτι was implicit: ‘‘ Methinks God has set forth us the app. last, as sentenced to death,—that we have been made a spectacle to the world,” etc. Hf. would read ὅντι θέατρον, ‘‘ which spectacle,” etc.—a tempting constr., suiting the lively style of the passage; but ὅστις occurs as adj. nowhere in the N.T. (unless, possibly, in Heb. ix. g), and rarely at allin Gr. @éarpov ‘‘may mean the place, spectators, actors, or spectacle: the last meaning is the one used here, and the rarest” (Lt.). “Το the world: ””, so Peter, ¢.g., at Jerus., Paul in the great Gentile capitals. ‘Both to angels and men” extends the ring to include those invisible watchers — ‘kal singles them out for special attention ”’ (Lt.)—of whose presence the Ap. was aware (see xi. 10, and other ρατῖς.); angels, as such, in con- trast with men,—not the good or bad
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