ν. 22, etc.) include all the distinctive boons of the Christian faith; ‘the carnal things’ embrace, besides food and drink (4), all suitable bodily ‘‘ goods” (Gal. vi. 6).—The question of ver. 12a assumes that other Christian teachers received main- tenance from the Cor. Church; the claim of Paul and his fellow-missioners was paramount (cf. iv. 15; also 2 Cor. x. 12-18, xi. 12 ff., 20, where this compari- son comes up in a new form).—tpev is surely gen. of object, as in Matt. x. 1 ( = ἐξουσίαν ἐπὶ, Luke ix. 1), John xvii. 2,—‘‘the claim upon you”. Evy. and Ed. read the pron. as subjective gen.—the latter basing the phrase on iii. 22 f.—sc. “if others share in your domain,” in- stead of “in dominion over you”’; this rendering is sound in grammar, and has a basis in iv. 7-12, but lies outside the scope of ἐξουσία in this context. The expression “others participate’ suggests a right belonging to these “others” in a lesser degree (cf. µετέχω in 10): the πατὴρ should be first honoured, then the παιδαγωγοί (iv. 15).
Ver. τ2ύ. ‘But we did not use this right ’’—+4.e., P. and his comrades in the Cor. mission (2 Cor. i. 10).---ἀλλὰ πάντα. στέγοµεν: ‘Nay, we put up with every- thing (omnia sustinemus, Vg.), lest we should cause any (kind of) hindrance to the good news about Christ”.—oréyo, (see parls.), syn. in later Gr. with ὑπο- µένω, βαστάζω, “marks the patient and enduring spirit with which the Ap. puts up with all the consequences naturally resulting from” his policy of abstinence (Ε1.). What this involved we have partly seen in iv. 11 ff.; cf. 2 Cor. xi. 27, Acts xx. 34.—The ἐνκοπὴ he sought to obviate
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