The marriage Paul discourages is no sin, but will bring suffering from which he would fain save his friends. ‘ But affliction for the flesh such (as may marry) will have, but I am seeking to spare you.” With θλίψις cf. σκόλοψ τῇ σαρκί (2 Cor. xii. 7; also v. 5 above); there is some thought, possibly, of 7ε- compense to “the flesh’ which has had its way against advice. The affliction that Paul foresees is aptly indicated by Photius: ‘‘ More easily and with small distress shall we endure if we have no wives and children to carry along with us in persecutions and countless miseries’. At such times, for those who have do- mestic cares, there arises “the terrible:
27---31.
δὲ ὑμῶν | φείδοµαι.
™ , κας ὡς μὴ “ ἔχοντες dar, 30. καὶ of "KAalovres ὡς pi * KAalovTes, AQ Gir [ή ς 9 r , 4 Lae Vee ά ς A καὶ ol "xalpovtes ὡς μὴ " Χαίροντες, καὶ οἱ " ἀγοράζοντες ὡς μη ἑκατέχοντες, 31. καὶ οἱ "χρώμενοι 79° κόσμῳῖ τούτῳ
Ἱκαταχρώμενοι :
2; Rom. xiii. 11; Eph. v. 16; Col. iv. 5; 2 Tim. iv. 6; Rev. xii. 1; Lk. xix. 44; Jo. vii. 8. p See i. 16; 70 A., Ph. iii. 1, iv. 8; 2 Th. ili. 1; Heb. x. 13;
h.l. (cf. Acts v. 6); Sir. iv. 31. Xiv. 41. q See v. 1. sense, 2 Cor. vi. 10; Josh.i. 11. See xi. 2. 1 Jo. ii. 8, 17. x Ph. ii. 8; Isa. iii. 17.
~ c 29. ™Todto δέ ™dypt, ἀδελφοί, ὁ ” καιρὸς ὁσυνεσταλµένος 5: ? τὸ Ρ Noumdy? ἐστιν ” ἵνα καὶ ot 3 ἔχοντες * yuvat- "παράγει γὰρ τὸ *
τ2 Cor. vi. 10; Rom. xii. 15; Jo. xvi. 20. u See ver. 21.
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112 Cor. i.23, xii. 6, xiii. 2; Rom. Vili.32, xi. 21; Acts XX. 29; 2 Pet. ii. 4 f.
i ο M Xv. 505 ‘5
see vi. 16. πλ CA.
lel / , . η lik σχῆμα τοῦ κόσμου τούτου. 7 In like
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ο Ν.Τ. Mk. s See vi. 20. t In this
v ix. 18. w Mt. ix. 9, etc.; mid.,
1 Beza and Elzevir read οτι ο καιρος, after DG and the Western txt.
2euvertahpevos eatiy τολοιπον, ΝΑΒΓ” (om. το) P 17, 37, 46, and
many Ff. Tisch.); see note below.
With this order of words, the stop tollows εστιν: so B* (according to G 67**, latt. vg., Tert., Hier., Aug. write εστιν fwice.
συνεσταλμ. το λοιπον εστιν, DcKL, etc.—L, syrr. cop., followed by Elz. and Gries- bach, put the stop at εστιν; Stephens, Bz., and most edd. of T.R. placed it before
το λοιπον.
ὅπον κοσµον (om. τοντ.), $2AB, cop. DG 17 add τούτον. τῳ κοσµῳ τουτῳ: Syrian uncc., etc. ; a grammatical emendation.
alternative, between duty to God and affection to wife and children” (Lt.).— φείδοµαι appears to be a conative present (see Bn. § 11; cf. Ro. ii. 4, Gal. v. 4).
Vv. 29-31. τοῦτο δέ dypr, ἀδελφοί, κ.τ.λ.; “ This moreover I assert, breth- ren: The time ἐς cut short” .—dénpi, as distinguished from λέγω, ‘“ marks the gravity and importance of the statement ”’ (Ε1.).---Συνστέλλω (to contract, shorten sail) acquired the meaning to depress, defeat (x1 Mace. iii. 6, 2 Macc. vi. 12); hence some render συνεσταλµένος by “ calarnitous,”’ but without lexical war- rant.—6é καιρός (see paris.) is ‘“ the season,”’ the epoch of suspense in which the Church was then placed, looking for Christ’s coming (i. 7) and uncertain of its date. The prospect is ‘‘ contracted” ; short views must be taken of life.
The connexion of τὸ λοιπὸν and ἵνα - ++» cw with the foregoing affords a signal example of the grammatical loose- ness which mars Paul’s style. (a) As to τὸ λοιπόν: (1) Cm., the Gr. ΕΕ, Bz., ΑΙ., Ev., Hn., Gd., Ed., R.V. mg. attach it to ovveor. ἐστίν, in a manner ‘contrary to its usual position in Paul’s epp. and diluting the force of the solemn 6 καιρὸς . . . éotiv” (El.). (2) The Vg. and Lat. Ff., Est., Cv., A.V. read τὸ λοιπὸν as predicate to ἐστὶν understood, thus commencing a new sentence,—“ re- liquum est ut,’ etc. ; this is well enough in Latin, but scarcely tolerable Greek. (5) Με. HE, Bt., El. Lt., .W.H., RV.