Ver. 2. εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ κ.τ.λ.; for if I make you sorry, who then is he that makes me glad, but he who is made sorry by me ὃ His argument is: When I make you sorry, it is that you may repent (see chap. vii. 9), and so gladden me: my change of purpose was not prompted by the desire of giving pain, but on the con-
"τῇ γὰρ "πίστει "ἑστήκατε: ΤΙ. 1.
"τὸ μὴ πάλιν ἐλθεῖν 2 ἐν λύπῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς.
δ τς
, “ ὑμᾶς, καὶ τίς ἐστιν ὃ ὁ ᾿ εὐφραίνων με, εἰ μὴ 6 λυπούμενος ἐξ ἐμοῦ ;
3. καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν 4 "τοῦτο ὃ °
2 d
ὧν ἔδει µε χαίρειν - ᾿ πεποιθὼς πάντων ὑμῶν ἐστιν.
καρδίας ἔγραψα ὑμῖν διὰ πολλῶν δακρύων, οὐχ ἵνα λυπηθῆτε, ἀλλὰ : τὴν ὃ ἀγάπην ἵνα γνῶτε ἣν ἔχω περισσοτέρως εἰς ' ὑμᾶς.
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Η͂ Ἄ ή ᾿ ἔκρινα 821 ἐμαυτῷ τοῦτο, ὁ Rom. αὶ. ἰ γὰρ ἐνὰ ~ Cor. xvi. 2. εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ λυπῶ τς
a Rom. xiv.
αὐτὸ, ἵνα μὴ ἐλθὼν λύπην ὁ ἔχω ἴ ἀφ᾽ 13:
Ὁ Rom. xv.
ἐπὶ πάντας ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ἡ ἐμὴ χαρὰ το; Gal.
iv. 27.
4. ἐκ γὰρ πολλῆς "θλίψεως καὶ * συνοχῆς ο Rom. xiii.
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«ΧΧΙ.25. 6 Reff. i. 14.
1B 17, the Bohairic and Harclean have yap; D* has re; all other authorities δε. 2 SABCKLOP place ελθειν after υµας; DEG and the Peshitto read ελθειν προς
vpas, and the Bohairic has το μη ελθειν προς υμας εν λυπῃ (Omitting παλιν).
The
received order is found in a few cursives only. 5 S&cDEGKLOP, etc., give εστιν; om. δ ΒΟ and the Bohairic. 4 sycCcDEGKL, the Syriac and (most) Latin vss. have υμιν, which is omitted by
S*ABC*OP 17 and the Bohairic.
5 CO give αντο τουτο (cf. vii. 11); A and the Bohairic omit αυτο. 8 DEG and a few other authorities have λυπην επι λυπὴν (from a reminiscence of
Phil. ii. 27).
7 εχω NcDEGKL; better σχω, $*ABOP (see on i. 15).
8G has wa γνωτε την αγαπην.
trary by my fear that, if I visited you as I had intended, you would sadden me: I should have had to grieve, and be grieved by those who are the source of my purest joy. With the introductory καὶ tis, ‘“Who then,” the implied answer being ‘“‘ No one,” cf. Mark x. 26, καὶ τίς δύναται σωθῆναι, and chap. ii. 16.
Ver. 3. καὶ ἔγραψα τοῦτο αὐτὸ: and I wrote this very thing ; i.e., 1 communi- cated my change of plan (1 Cor. xvi. 5 ff.). So ἔκρινα τοῦτο in ver. 1. (The translation “just for this reason,” taking τοῦτο αὐτό adverbially, is also admis- sible; cf. 2 Pet. i. 5).—tva μὴ ἐλθὼν λύπην κ.τ.λ.: lest when I came I should have sorrow from them from whom I ought to rejoice. ad ὧν is for ἀπ ἐκείνων ἀφ᾽ ὧν; cf. I Pet. ii. 12, iii, 16,— πεποιθὼς ἐπὶ πάντας ὑμᾶς κ.τ.λ.: hav- ing confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all; {.6., having confidence in the perfect sympathy between himself and his correspondents. He could only be made glad if they were made glad; and so to visit them for the purpose of rebuking them would be as painful to him as to them. Observe the repeated πάντας . . . πάντων: despite the factions in Corinth (1 Cor. iii. 4) he must think of them all as his friends (cf. xiii. 13).
9. has προς υμας.
Ver. 4. ἐκ γὰρ πολλῆς θλίψεως κ.τ.λ.: for out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. This describes the state of mind in which he wrote 1 Cor., if the view of the situa- tion which has been adopted in this com- mentary be correct (see Introd., p. 13).— διὰ πολλῶν δακρύων : we have διά used, somewhat similarly, with the genitive of the attendant circumstances, in Rom. ii. 27, iv. 11, viii. 25, xiv. 20, chap. v. 7, Heb. xii. 1, Rev. xxi. 24, etc.—ovx ἵνα λυπη- θῆτε κ.τ.λ.: not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye should know the love which I have so abundantly to you. ἀγάπη, aS a grace especially to be ex- hibited in Christian intercourse, is re- peatedly dwelt on by St. Paul. The word has been described as “ecclesi- astical”” and as having been first intro- duced to literature in the LXX. But it has been recently found in papyri of the Ptolemaic period (Deissmann, Bibel- studien, p. 81), and it thus appears that the LXX only took over a word already current in the speech of Greek Egypt. Here the position of ἀγάπην before ἵνα gives it special emphasis; cf., for a like order, Acts xix. 4, Rom. xi. 31. περισ- σοτέρως may mean ‘“‘ more abundantly,” sc., than to other Churches; but it is