15. ἐὰν γὰρ “puplous ᾿ παιδαγωγοὺς ἔχητε
2%. Μι. 161 ἐν Χριστῷ, ἀλλ᾽ οὗ πολλοὺς πατέρας; ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ 5 διὰ
1Thess. v. 12,14; 2 Thess. iii. : 5 fl 9 15; Acts ὅ µιµηταί mou γίν : eer μιμη μου ayeV EO U Xiv. 19; Matt XViil. 24. v Gal. iii.
24 f. w Phm. 10; cf. Gal. iv. 19; 1 Thess. ii. 7 f., 11. ii. 14; Heb. vi. 12. a ΕΡΗ. 1.1; Col.i.2; Acts xvi. 15. Mk. xi. 21, xiv. 72. -σις, xi. 24. c Acts ii. 28, xiii. 10; xiv. 16; freq. in O.T.
For the vb., 2 Thess. iii. 7, 9. πιστος, 5ε8 VEF. 2.
τοῦ εὐαγγελίου ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς " ἐγένησα". 16. παρακαλῶ οὖν ὑμᾶς,
το
ᾳ , a ὃς ἐστι "τέκνον " pou* " ἀγαπητὸν καὶ " πιστὸν " ἐν " Κυρίῳ, ὃς ὑμᾶς.
διὰ τοῦτο ὃ ” ἔπεμψα ” ὑμῖν Τιµόθεον,
ἀναμνήσει τὰς "ὁδούς µου τὰς ἐν Χριστῷιὁ καθὼς “ πανταχοῦ ἐν ' πάσῃ
x See i. 10. y xi. 1; Eph. v. 1; 1 Thess. i. 6, z Phil. ii. 19; Acts xi. 29; dat. commodi. b 2 Cor. vii. 15: 2 Tim. 1.6; Heb. x. 32;
ΡΙ., Rom. iii. 16, xi. 33; Heb. iii. 10; James i. 8; Rev. xv. 3; d Acts xvii. 30, xxiv. 3.
Ἰνουβετων (?): so SACP 17 (Alexandrian, and perhaps Neutral), followed by
Tisch., W.H., Tr. marg., Nestle.
νουθετω BDGL, etc., latt. vg.—Western and Syrian.
3 B om. Ingov, with several Ff.
ὃ [δια τουτο) αυτο () ins. ΜΑΡ 17, syrP-, Euthal. ; so Tisch., W.H. marg.
Om. αυτο ScBCDGL, etc., syrsch.; W.H. txt., Al., Tr., Nestle.
The double
pronoun is characteristic of Paul ; αυτο might easily be lost through homeeoteleuton. 4 pov τεκνον, SABCP 17, 37, Euthal.
5 Χριστῳ Inoov, ΝΟΡΡ 17, 37, cop. syrp- Euthal.—Alexandrian. Kupi@ Ίησου (om. Xpiotw) : D*G—Western. Χριστῳ, ABDcLP, etc., syrsch.— Neutral and Syrian.
a monitory appeal to the vows rather than a direct rebuke or censure” (El.).
Ver. 15. Reason for this lighter re- proof, where stern censure was due— “For if you should have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet (you have) not many fathers!” The relation of the ἐποικοδο- μοῦντες to the θεµέλιον τιθείς (iii. το) is exchanged for that of the παιδαγωγοὶ to the πατήρ. The παιδαγωγός (boy-leader) was not the schoolmaster, but the home- tutoy—a kind of nursery-governor—who had charge of the child from tender years, looking after his food and dress, speech and manners, and when he was old enough taking him to and from school (see Lt. on Gal. iii. 24). This epithet has a touch of disparagement for the readers (cf. Gal. ill. 25); as Or. says (Catena), referring to iii. 1 f., οὐδεὶς ἀνὴρ παιδαγωγεῖται, GAN’ εἴ τις νήπιος καὶ ἀτελής.-- µνρίους (xiv. 19) indicates the very many—probably too many— teachers busy in this Church (cf. Jas. lii. 1, and iii. 18 above), in whose guidance the Cor. felt themselves ‘“‘ rich’ and Apos- tolic direction superfluous (8).---ἀλλά (at certe) introduces an apodosis in salient contrast with its protasis: ‘“‘ You may have ever so many nurses, but only one father!” From this relationship ‘‘non solum Apollos excluditur, successor; sed etiam comites, Silas et Timotheus ”’ (Bg.) :
ἐγώ (I and no other) ἐγέννησα ὑμᾶς (cf. Philem. 10, Gal. iv. 19); in the Rabbini- cal treatise Sanhedrin, f., xix. 2, the like sentiment occurs, ‘‘ Whoever teaches the son of his friend the law, it is as if he had begotten him’’; similarly Philo, de Virtute, p. 1000.—81a τ. εὐαγγελίου = cf. τ Peter i. 23; also i. 18 above, 1 Thess. i. 5, li. το; John vi. 63, etc.
Ver. 16. ‘‘I beseech you therefore (as your father), be imitators of me.” γίνεσθε (pr. impr.) signifies, in moral exhortations, be in effect, show yourselves (cf. Eph. iv. 32, ν. 17). μιμηταὶ γίνεσθε demands, beyond μιμεῖσθε, a character formed on the given model. Imitation is the law of the child’s life; cf. Eph. v. 1; and for the highest illustration, John v. 17- 20. It is one thing to say ‘I am of Paul” (i. 12), another to tread in Paul’s