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Ἰησοῦν 1 Xprorév,! 'Hrw Ἡ ἀνάθεμα: ) Μαρὰν ἀθα. 23. Ἡ "χάρις {ρε v.18;
τοῦ ”' Κυρίου 3 ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ ! ™ μεθ ὑμῶν. ἀμήν.ὃ
ς Le) > na? nw - wdvtwv ὑμῶν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.
3151 Mace. x.
ἡ " ἀγάπη "µου μετὰ
BT. k See xii. 3.
Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Φιλίππων διὰ Στεφανᾶ καὶ! 1s; see
Φουρτουνάτου καὶ ᾿Αχαϊκοῦ καὶ Τιμοθέου.5
1 xvi. 20, 24; Gal. vi. 18; Phil. iv. 23; 1 ΤΗ. ν. 28; 2 Th. iii. 18; Phm. 25; Rev. xxii. 21. n Subj. gen., Phil. 1, 9; Col. i. 8, 13; 1 Th. iii. 6; 2 Th. i
μεθ υμ., 2 Cor. viii. g; Acts xv. 11.
below. m 2 Cor. xiii. ; Rom. ithout
3; Phm. 5,7; Rev. ii. 4,19; Mt. xxiv. 12; Jo. xv.gf. Η.Ι. for this form of wish ; cf. 2 Cor. xii. 15.
10m. |Inoovvy Xprorov R*ABC*M, 17. Ino. χρ. is a Western and Syrian addition.
ημων to Κυριον.
KP, syrsch., Victorin., Pelag. add The arm, vers., one
cod. of vg., and a few Ff., add Ίησουν alone. 2 Some edd. write µαραναθα as a single word. 3 ALP, many minn., cop. syrsch., several Ff., ins. ηµων.
4Om. Χριστου ΝΒ, 17, 73, oldest vg. go., Thdrt.
Lachm. and R.V., who retain Xp.
5 Om. apnv BFM, 17. So all crit. edd.; only Lachm. brackets.
addition.
So the crit. edd., exc.
A liturgical
6 The Subscription, as in other Epp., varies much in form. S¥ABC* read προς Κορινθιους d, as at the beginning of the Ep. The received Subscr., due probably
toa misunderstanding Syrian unce. KL. B
το, etc. So most moderns. Bickell, Gd., and a few others, would read Maran’a tha’, making the vb. impv.—‘“ Our Lord, Ο come!”’—in keeping with Rev. xxii, 20; but this is questionable in grammar, and less appropriate. The exclamation, like "ABBa (Rom. viii. 15, Gal. iv. 6) and ᾽Αμήν, was probably caught up by Gentile Christians from the first preachers, who in moments of rap- ture naturally reverted to their mother tongue; cf. Ed. ad loc. Such salient and mystic phrases might serve as watch- words, or on occasion as passwords, amongst the early Christians. In Didaché, x. 6, Mapav ἀθὰ stands as the closing formula of the Thanksgiving Prayer at the Eucharist, apparently in the sense of xi. 26 above. For other interpretations, numerous and often fanciful, see the digest in Mr.-Hn. ad loc., also N. Schmidt in the Fournal of Bibl. Liter., 1894, Ἱ., ii., 50 ff.
Vv. 23, 24: Having uttered the great watchword of the waiting Church, Paul has only to add his personal benediction upon the readers: (1) in his favourite phrase of farewell, desiring them Christ’s
of ver. 5 (Μακεδονιαν yap διερχοµαι), appears first in the P and a few others have, more correctly, εγραφη απο Edeoov.
grace—a wish expanded in 2 Cor. into the Trinitarian blessing of ch. xiii. 13; (2) in the further wish, peculiar to this Ep. and fitting in view of the frequent censures of the letter, which might seem to indicate alienation on the writer’s part (cf. iv..14 £., 2 Cor. xi. rx, xii. 15; Gal. iv. 16 ff.)\—‘* My love be with you all in Christ Jesus’. Many Cor. Christians ranged themselves under other leaders, many criticised and opposed the Ap., some he has been obliged to threaten with the “rod” (iv. 21); nevertheless he desires his love to ‘‘all,”—and that abid- ingly, ‘with you all, in Christ Fesus,” who is the basis and bond of love amongst His people. Mr., Hn., Bt. read the last sentence as a matter-of- fact, not a wish, understanding ἐστὶν instead of ety—‘‘ My love is with you, etc.”; but this destroys the parallelism with ver. 23 (see El.). The sentence ex- presses an aspiration rather than an actuality. Paul’s “love in Christ Jesus” is not, strictly speaking, with those who ‘love not the Lord” (21). nor with those who “destroy the temple of God” (iii. 17), nor with the culprit of v. 1-5.