Ver. 16. προπεμφθῆναι: forward on my journey”.
το πο οι The practice
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m Ἄδα μοι, πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ ὑφ ὑμῶν “ προπεμφθῆναι εἰς τὴν ᾿Ιουδαίαν. τι ἄρα τῇ
$3 re τοῦτο οὖν Boudeudpevos! μή
XV. 24; 1 Cor. xvi.
17. “éhappia ἐχρησάμην ; ἢ ἃ
6, 11; Tit. “ βουλεύομαι, " κατὰ " σάρκα βουλεύομαι, ἵνα ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ τὸ “ ναὶ
iii. 13. Ὁ Here only;
ναὶ καὶ τὸ οὗ οὔ; 18. πιστὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς, ὅτι ὁ λόγος ἡμῶν ὁ πρὸς
4. —_ ᾽ὑμᾶς οὐκ ἐγένετο vai καὶ οὔ" 19. ὁ γὰρ ὃ τοῦ Θεοῦ υἱὸς ᾿Ιησοῦς o Here only Χριστὸς “ ὁ ἐν ὑμῖν δι᾿ ἡμῶν " κηρυχθεὶς, Be ἐμοῦ καὶ Σιλουανοῦ καὶ
in Pau
p John viii. 15; Rom. viii. 4, 12, 13; chaps. ν. 16, x. 4, xi. 18.
111, 16.
q Mt. ν. 37; Jas. v. 12. τι Tim.
1 The better reading is BovAopevos, with NABCGP, f, vg. and the Bohairic;
BovAevopevos DEK, d, e, g and the Syriac.
® eyevero of NCDbcEKL is probably a (mistaken) correction of εστιν, which is read by $)*ABCD*GP 17, the Latin and the Bohairic vss.
ΣΝΑΒΕΟΡ, 17 have ο τον Θεον yap; text follows the later authorities DEGKL.
4Ἴη. Xp. has the support of N©BDEGKLP; but Ν’ΑΟ (a strong combination) give Xp. "ly. The order of words is therefore doubtful, but we prefer Xp. "In. on the
whole.
of “μυ fellow-Christians on their journeys, of “" seeing them off”’ in safety, is often mentioned in Acts, and is incul- cated more than once as a duty by St. Paul (see reff.).
Ver. 17. τοῦτο οὖν βουλόμενος κ.τ.λ.: when therefore I was thus minded, did I shew fickleness? The article rp before ἐλαφρίᾳ can hardly be pressed so as to convey the meaning ‘that fickleness which you lay to my charge"; it is merely generic.— ἃ βουλεύομαι κ.τ.λ. : or the things that I purpose, do I pur- pose according to the flesh, that there should be with me the Yea, yea, and the Nay, nay? That is, “Are my plans made like those of a worldly man, that they may be changed according to my own caprice, Yes to-day, No to-morrow 2”) His argument is that, although the details of his original plan had been altered, yet in spirit and purpose it was unchanged ; there is no room for any charge of in- consistency or fickleness. His principles of action are unchangeable, as is the Gospel which he preaches. He had pro- mised to go to Corinth, and he would go. For a similar use of the phrase κατὰ σάρκα see reff., and cf. chap. v.16. The reduplication val val... οὔ οὔ is not altogether easy to explain; but we have vai ναὶ repeated similarly in Matt. v. 37, and perhaps we may also compare the ᾿Αμὴν, ᾽Αμήν of St. John’s Gospel (e.¢., x. 1). Some critics (e.g., Steck) have regarded val val... οὔ οὔ here as an actual quotation from Matt. v. 37. But apart from the fact that this opinion rests on a quite untenable theory as to the date of this Epistle (see Introd., p. 12),
the context of the words will not lend itself to any such interpretation (see above).
Ver. 18. πιστὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς ὅτι κ.τ.λ.; but as God is faithful, our word, εἰς, For the construction, «]. the similar forms of asseveration ζῇ κύριος ὅτι, “as the Lord liveth"’ (1 Sam. xx. 3, 2 Sam. ii. 27), and ἔστιν ἀλήθεια Χριστοῦ ἐν ἐμοὶ ὅτι, “as the truth of Christ is in me" (xi. το). For πιστός as applied to God, see Deut. vii. 9, 1 Cor. i. 9, x. 13, 1 Thess. v. 24, 2 Thess. iii. 3, 2 Tim. ti. 13, and cf. 1 Sam. xv. 29.—é w ὁ πρὸς ὑμᾶς οὐκ ἔστιν Ναὶ καὶ Οὔ: our word (sc., my personal communications about my journey, as well as the message of the Gospel) towards you is not Yea and Nay. Ido not deceive you or vacillate in my purpose: cf, ii. 17.