faith must find expression, that it cannot be silent, is the Apostle’s adaptation of the words. With τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πίστεως ef. Kom. Vill, 15, τ Cor. 1v.-21, Gal. νι. ο Ερα ματ ο Lim. ἂν 7. οἷος Deiss- mann (Neue Bibelstudien, p. 78) illus- trates the introductory formula of citation here employed by the legal formula κατὰ τὰ προγεγραμμένα which occurs in a Fayyuim papyrus of 52 A.D.
Ver. 14. Despite the contrast between death in us and life in you (ver. 12), we trust that we too shall share in that Risen Life of Christ. εἰδότες ὅτι κ.τ.λ.: knowing that He who raised up the Lord Fesus (see reff.) shall raise up us also with Fesus, sc., on the Day of the general Resurrection (1 Thess. iv. τα), and shall present us with you (see reff.). Observe that the A.V. ‘shall raise up us also by Jesus’’ depends on a wrong reading, and perverts the sense. It would appear from this passage that the Apostle did not hope to be alive at the Second Advent of Christ (cf. i. 8, 1 Cor. xv. 52), although at an earlier period he seems to have cherished such an expectation (1 Thess. iv. I5).
Ver. 15. τὰ γὰρ πάντα δι᾽ ὑμᾶς κ.τ.λ.: (With you, I say) for all things (cf. τ Cor. iii. 22) are for your sakes (cf. 1. 6), that the grace, being multiplied, sc., to me, through the (prayers of the) greater num- ber of you, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God. Cf. i. τά, a closely parallel passage, and Phil. i. το. Except that we have deemed it necessary to translate τῶν πλειόνων literally (see on