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h 1 Thess. ii.9; 2
Il.
ἵνα μὴ " ἐπιβαρῶ πάντας ὑμᾶς. 6. ‘ixavdv τῷ " τοιούτῳ ἡ | ἐπιτιμία
Thess. iii. αὕτη ἡ ὑπὸ " τῶν " πλειόνων - 7. ὥστε " τοὐναντίον μᾶλλον ' ὑμᾶς
8 only.
ἐς Cor. xv. ° χαρίσασθαι καὶ παρακαλέσαι, μήπως τῇ περισσοτέρᾳ λύπῃ " κατα- i 16, ii. ποθῇ ὁ τοιοῦτος. 8. διὸ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς “ κυρῶσαι εἰς αὐτὸν ἀγάπην.
5; 2 Tim. li. 2.
k 1 Cor.v. 5; chaps. x. 11, xi. 13. iv. 15, ix.2; Phil.i,1q4. m Gal. ii. 7; 1 Eph. iv. 32; Col. ii. 13, iii. 13; Lk. vii. 42. 15; Gen. xxiii. 20; + XXV. 30.
9. εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ἔγραψα,” ἵνα γνῶ τὴν "δοκιμὴν ὑμῶν, εἰ * εἰς 1 Wisd. iii. το only; cf. 2 Macc. vi. 1 et. iii. xii. 13;
p 1 Cor. xv. 54 (Isa. xxv. 8); chap. v. 4. q Gal. ilk τ Rom. v. 4; chaps. viii. 2, ix. 13, xili. 3; Phil, ii. 22 only.
m 1 Cor, ix. 1
ν x. 5, xv. 6; cha: only ; 3 Mace. fil, oa. a
o Chaps. ii. 10,
! AB and the Peshitto (which W.H. follow here) omit μαλλον, but it is found in all other authorities; DEG 17 place it after vpas.
3 G inserts νµων (vobis, f, g, and so the Bohairic) after εγραψα.
Σα, g prefix παντων to υμων.
* AB 17 have ῃ, which W.H. place in their margin; almost all other authorities
have ει.
quite legitimate to take it as used without any special comparative force (cf. x. 8).
Vv. 5-11. ΤΗΕ OFFENDER HAS BEEN SUFFICIENTLY PUNISHED: THE APOSTLE ACQUIESCES IN THEIR REMISSION OF THE PENALTY OF 1 Cor. v. 1-5.—Ver. 5. εἰ δέ τις λελύπηκεν κ.τ.λ.: but if any one, σε, the incestuous person of 1 Cor. ν. 1, his name being suppressed with a rare deli- cacy of feeling, hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, sc.,1 am not the person directly aggrieved, but to some extent (that I press not too heavily on him) to you all. That is to say to the words ἀπὸ μέρους are added by the Apostle ἵνα μὴ ἐπιβαρῶ (sc., αὐτόν). The sentence has been otherwise con- strued ‘he hath not caused sorrow to me [alone], but [only] in part [having caused sorrow to you also): [this I add] that I may not press heavily on you all,” sc., by representing myself as the only person aggrieved. But this would re- «Ὁ εἰ μή instead οἵ ἀλλά, and, further,
oes not suit the context so well as the rendering given above, which treats ἵνα μὴ ἐπιβαρῶ as parenthetic.
Ver. 6. ἱκανὸν τῷ τοιούτῳ κ.τ.λ.: sufficient to such an one (the word used in 1 Cor. v. 5 to indicate the offender is this punishment (which was inflicte by the majority. The directions given by the Apostle for dealing with the offender had probably been carried out with harsh- ness and severity ; he now suggests that the punishment might be remitted, and the guilty man forgiven. ἐπιτιμία in the Attic orators is used for ‘‘ the possession of political rights,’’ but it came to mean (see reff.) penalty or requital ; the punish- ment (see 1 Cor. v. 5) would seem to have been of a disciplinary, and not merely punitive, character; it was pro-
bably like the formal excommunication of a later age (cf. also 1 Tim. i. 20), and involved the exclusion of the guil person from the privileges of the Christian Society. That it was inflicted only by “ the majority" (for so we must translate τῶν πλειόνων ; see reff.) is sufficiently accounted for by remembering the pre- sence of an anti-Pauline party at Corinth, who would not be likely to follow the Apostle’s instructions. The construction ἱκανὸν . . . ἡ ἐπιτιμία (ἐστι, rather than ἔστω, is the verb to be supplied) affords an instance of a neuter adjectival dicate set over against a feminine sub. (cf. Matt. vi. 34); ἱκανὸν seems to be used here like the Latin satis.