Ver. το. ‘‘God’s grace,” which makes Paul what he is (see ix. 1 f.: the double εἰμὶ is firmly assertive—‘I am what I verily am”’), is the favour, utterly unde- served, that summoned Saul of Tarsus
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p See iii. 22. 2.9/7. ἄν σαν ᾳ Sée i. 23. αλλά ba ή Be: - r ae 5 οὕτως * ἐπιστεύσατε. above). s See 1. 23. t Mt. xvii. Q, Xiv. 2, etc. (απο
ΤΙ. Petre οὖν
12. Et δὲ '" Χριστὸς " κηρύσσεται ὅτι
Ρεἴτε ἐκεῖνοι, οὕτω Ἱκηρύσσομεν καὶ
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"ἐγήγερται,
ἐκ " νεκρῶν
~ , ο) a "πῶς λέγουσί τινες” ἐν ὑμῖν ὅτι “avdoracis " νεκρῶν οὐκ ἔστιν;
τ. νεκρ.): Mk. vi. 143 Lk. ix. 7; Jo. ii. 22, xii. 1, 9, 17, xxi. 14: Acts iii. 15, iv. 10, xiii. 30; 1 Pet.
i. 21; Heb. xi. 19; 8 exx. in Rom.; 7 in P. elsewhere. w Rom. i. 4; in Acts five times; Heb. vi.2; 1 Pet. i. 3; Mt. xxii. 31; Lk. xx. 35.
14, lV. 9.
u See ver. 4. v Rom. vi. 2; Gal. ii.
10m. 7 S*BD%G, latt. vg. So crit. edd., exc. W.H. marg. Cf. note rt (p. 9021).
Σεν υμιν τινες: NABP. 17.
from the foremost rank of the persecutors to the foremost rank amongst the servants of the Lord Jesus: cf. 1 Tim. i. 14, Eph. i, 8, 1. 75 (Galui. τα ff.) πο orace of Apostleship implies the antecedent grace of forgiveness and adoption.—al 4 χάρις αὐτοῦ ἡ εἰς ἐμὲ κ.τ.λ., “Sand His grace that was extended (07 went out) unto me, has not proved vain’’: cf. the emphatic ἐμοὶ of Eph. iii. 8; the repeated art. marks me as the signal object of this grace; for χάρις eis, cf. 1 Peter i. 10.— κενή (cf. 14) means not void of result (that is µαταία, 17), but void of reality: Paul’s Apostleship was no titular office, no mere benevolence towards an un- worthy man; the favour brought with it a labour quite as extraordinary— nay, but (ἀλλ more abundantly than they all did I labour”’.—komidw connotes ex- ertion, painful or exhausting toil; see note on κόπος, iii. 8. So that, if last and least at the outset, and conspicuously unfit for Apostleship, in execution P. took the premier place: see 2 Cor. x. 13-18, xi. 23, xii, 11 ff., Rom. xv. 15-21Ι.---αὐτῶν πάντων, presumably, more thar all the vest together: by his single labours P. had extended the kingdom of Christ over a region wider than all the Twelve had traversed up to this date.-—From the depth of Paul’s self-abasement a new pride is ready to spring, which is cor- rected instantly by the words, οὐκ ἐγὼ δέ, GAN ἡ χάρις τοῦ Θεοῦ σὺν ἐμοί: ‘“not J, however, but the grace of God (working) with me”’—this really wrought the work; I was its instrument. See iii. 7 Ἡ κα 6 erat, Ἡπ τος Eup ite, πι 20, Col. i. 29; and for the turn of expres- sion, Gal. il. 20.
Ver. 11 breaks off the comparison be. tween himself and the other App., into which Paul was being drawn, to sum up the statement of fact and evidence con- cerning Christ’s resurrection: ‘*‘ Whether then it were I (8 f.) or they (Kephas, the Twelve, the first disciples, James: 5 ff.),
so we proclaim (3 f.), and so you believed (z)”. For etre, etre, giving alternatives indifferent from the point of view as- sumed, cf. iii. 22, x. 31, etc.—ottws is emphatic: in the essential matters of vv. 1-4 and the crucial point of the re- surrection of Jesus, there is not the least variation in the authoritative testimony ; Peter, James, Paul—Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth—are in perfect accord, preach- ing, believing, with one mind and one mouth, that the crucified Jesus rose from the dead.—On κηρύσσω, see note to i. 23.—This closes the case on the ground of testimony.