q See iii. 8. r See ver. to.
of the λόγος τ. σταυροῦ which alone P. proclaims at Cor. (ii. 1 f.).—God “ gives to us the victory,” won for us by “our Lord Jesus Christ,” which otherwise Sin, strengthened (instead of being broken) by the Law, had given to Death. The pr. ptp. τῷ διδόντι τὸ νῖκος asserts the experience of redemption (cf. i. 2, vi. 19; 2 Cor. v. 21, xiii. 5, Rom. v. 1 f., Eph. i. 7); similarly ὑπερνικῶμεν, Rom. viii. 37, declares the continuous triumph of faith: for the sentiment, cf. Rom. v. 2-11, 1 Thess. v. 16 ff., Phil. iv. 4, 1 Peter i. 3-9.
Ver. 56 is set aside by Sm., and Clemen (Die Einheitlichkeit d. paul. Br., ad loc.), after Straatmann and Ὑδίίει, as a “‘ mar- ginal note” of some early Paulinist, on the ground that it is out of keeping with the lyrical strain of the passage, and with the absence of the anti-legal polemic from this Ep. But the ideas of this ver. fill the contemporary Rom. and Gal. ΕΡΡ., and are uppermost there in Paul’s highest moods (see Rom. viii. 31 ff., 2 Cor. v. 13- 21); they are expressed with an origin- ality and pregnant force unmistakably Pauline, and in a rhythmical, imagina- tive turn of expression harmonising with the context. In this Ep., which “knows nothing but Jesus Christ and Him cruci- fied,” the Ap. was bound to link his theology of the Resurrection to the doc- trine of salvation by the Cross: see vv. 17 f., in proof that the λόγος τῆς ἆνα- στάσεως is one, in Paul’s mind, with the λόγος τοῦ σταυροῦ.
Ver. 58 briefly directs the previous teaching against the unsettlement caused by Cor. doubts. This unbelief was taxed in vv. 32 ff. with sensualism and ignor- ance of God; its emervating effect on Christian work is here indicated. For Gore with impv., cf. iii. 21, iv. 5, etc. —éSpaior Ὑγίνεσθε, ‘show yourselves steadfast’: see note on vii. 23, also x. 32, xi. 1; for the adj.,see parls. In Col. i. 23 the combination ἑδραῖοι, ἆμετα- κίνητοι (‘‘not-to-be-moved”) is almost identically repeated; similarly in Aris- totle, Nic. Eth., Π., iv., 3, τὸ βεβαίως καὶ ἀμετακινήτως ἔχειν is specified as a con-
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b See vi. 1, and note ὁ διέτα below.
c See xv. 22.
d See vii. 17 Th. ii. 14; Rev. i. 4. .
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dition of all right and virtuous doing. ---περισσεύοντες κ.τ.λ. adds the positive to the foregoing negative side of the in- junction: ‘abounding (overflowing: see parls.) in the work of the Lord always”. τ. ἔργον τ. Κυρίου (cf. ix. 1; Col. iii. 23 f., Matt. xxi. 28, Mark xiii. 34) is ‘the work”? which “the Lord’’ prescribes, while ‘‘ the work of God” (Rom. xiv. 20: cf. iii. ο above) is ‘‘the work” which ‘*God” does: contrast xii. 5 and 6 above. —‘* Knowing (as you do) that your toil is not empty in the Lord.” εἰδότες implies assured knowledge, such as springs from the confirmation of faith given in this chap. On κόπος, see note to iii. 8; and on κεγός, νετ. 14: the “toil” is ‘‘empty”’ which is spent on illusion; ‘‘ce n’est pas la une activité d’apparat, accomplie dans le néant, comme si souvent le travail terrestre, mais un sérieux labeur, accom- pli dans la sphére de 1|’éternelle réalité”’ (Gd.); hence the pr. ἐστὶν rather than ἔσται.---ἐν Κυρίω: in the sphereof Christ’s authority, wrought under His headship, which supplies the basis of all Christian relations and duties; cf. ver. 36, iv. 17, vil. 22, etc.
Division VI. Bustness, NEWS, AND GREETINGS, xvi. The Ap. has delivered his mind to the Cor. upon the questions which prompted this great Ep. He had reserved to the last the profound and solemn problem of the Future Life, in its treatment of which the conceit of intellect and the moral levity that spoiled this powerful Greek Church found their most characteristic expression. To the defence and exposition of the Christian hope of the Resurrection of the Body P. has devoted in chap. xv. all his powers of dialectic and of theological construc- tion, bringing his argument to the glori- ous conclusion with which, in § 56, the thought of the Ep. culminates. He has thus carried his readers far away from the Cor. atmosphere of jealousy and debate, of sensuality and social corrup- tion, infecting their Church, to seat them in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. There remain a few matters of personal interest, to be disposed of in two or three paragraphs—concerning the collection for