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txt. subordinate τὸ λοιπόν, thrown for- ward with emphasis, to the ἵνα clause (cf. Gal. ii. το, Rom. xi. 31)—‘‘so that henceforth indeed those that have wives may be as without them,’ etc.; this gives compactness to the whole sentence, and proper relevance to the adv. Those who realise the import of the pending crisis will from this time sit loose to mundane interests. (b) As to the con- nexion of ἵνα .. . gow: this clause may define either the Apostle’s purpose, as attached to φημί (so Bz., Hf., Ed.), or the Divine purpose implied in συνεστ. ἐστίν (so most interpreters). Both ex- planations give a fitting sense: the Ap. urges, ot God has determined, the limita- tion of the temporal! horizon, in order to call off Christians from secular absorption. In this solemn connexion the latter is, presumably, Paul’s uppermost thought. Vv. 29), 30 are “the picture of spiritual detachment in the various situations in life” (Gd.). Home with its joys and griefs, business, the use of the world, must be carried on as under notice to quit, by men prepared to cast loose from the shores of time (cf. Luke xii. 29-36; by contrast, Luke xiv. 18 ff.). From, wedlock the Ap. turns, as in vv. 17-24, to other earthly conditions—there con- sidered as stations not to be wilfully changed, here as engagements not to be allowed to cumber the soul. Ed. ob- serves that the Stoic condemned the in- teraction, here recognised, between “the
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y Mt. xxviii.
ATie. ~ y > , > ta, Wied, 92: θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς 7 ἀμερίμνους εἶναι. 4 d ! i v ‘ vi. 16, vil. Κυρίου, πῶς " αρέσει | τῷ Κυρίῳ; 33.
23. µεριµ- va, Mt. η ee By ο. Lia i) mil ani TOU κοσμου, πως αρεσει τη γυναικι. etc. καὶ ἡ "παρθένος 2 - 2 See ver. 8. sgn. : ax.25; καὶ σωµατι Ph. ii. 20, B iv. 6; Mt. vi. 25 ff., Χ. 19. bx. c See ver. g, and note on ver. 28. f See v. 3.
lapeoy (thrice): all pre-Syrian unce.
2 A perplexed varia lectio :—
(4) και (µεμερισται), RABDer-P 17, vg. syrsch. cop.
(later Western and Syrian).
(2) και (η γυνη): all uncc. but D*E, and most minn.
mentioned by Hier., syrsch. cop.
minn., vg. cop., Eus., Amb., Hier., Pel.