Ver. 12. οὐ στενοχωρεῖσθε ἐν ἡμῖν κ.τ.λ.:; ye are not strattened in us (this carries on the metaphor of πεπλάτυνται), but ye are straitened in your own affec- tions ; 1.ε., his adversaries at Corinth may have said that he was a man of narrow sympathies, and that there was no room in his heart for his Corinthian converts, but, in fact, the lack of sympathy was on their side—it is they that are ‘ narrow- minded”. τὰ σπλάγχνα =the upper viscera, ἴ.6., the heart, lungs and liver, the vital parts, and so may be rendered ‘the affections ”’.
Ver. 13. τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀντιμισθίαν K.T.A.; now for a recompense in like kind (an accus. abs.)—I speak as unto chil- dren, sc., who should respect and imitate their parents (cf. 1 Cor. iv. 14)—be ye also enlarged, sc., in heart.
Vv. 14-vii. I. PARENTHETICAL.—HE WARNS THEM AGAINST TOO FAMILIAR ASSOCIATION WITH THEIR HEATHEN NEIGHBOURS. ‘These verses are some- what perplexing, inasmuch as they seem to interrupt the appeal of vv. 11-13 by
von τέκνοις λέγω) πλατύνθητε καὶ ὑμεῖς. τίς γὰρ “ μετοχὴ δικαιοσύνῃ ὃ καὶ " ἀνομίᾳ ;
xix. 19.
a ἀπίστοις 7: wHere only; ὙΡΟΡΥΕΕΟΥΙ 5
14. Μὴ γίνεσθε * ἑτεροζυ-
Ps.cxxi. τίς” δὲ 7 κοινωνία φωτὶ ὃ πρὸς σκότος; 15. τίς δὲ "συμφώνησις
Cf.
τ:κ.17, Χριστῷ ὃ πρὸς "Βελίαρῖ; ἢ τίς " μερὶς πιστῷ ὃ μετὰ ἀπίστου ; Ι,
x Rom. iv. 7, vi. το; 2 Thess. ii. γ; Τε, ντ. = y —— viii. 4, ix. 13, xiii. 13, etc.; cf. Ecclus. xiii. 36. a Her
17. z Here only; c/. 1 Cor. νι, 5; Lk. v.
1 6, d, e, f, g and the Peshitto have και µη.
ε only. Ὁ Col. i. 12; cf. 1 Kings xii. 16.
3. 6 has pera απιστων.
3.0 has δικαιοσννης μετα ανοµιας; D* δικαιοσννης και αδικιας; DcE δικαιοσννη
και αδικια.
Καὶ and the Harclean text have τις δε; better η τις with the principal uncials
and vss.
5 Ὁ", ἆ, e give φωτος.
® DEGKL, g and the Syriac vss. give Χριστῳφ; better Χριστον with BCP 17,
d, e, f and the Bohairic.
7 Βελιαρ is the right spelling; D*EK have βελιαν and G βελιαβ ; βελιαλ appears
in a few cursives only, and in f, g, vg.
8 B 17 and the Bohairic have πιστον for πιστφ.
the introduction of an irrelevant warning. If they be omitted, the argument is quite consecutive, vii. 2 f. being in close and evident connexion with vi. 11-13. And it has been supposed that the whole section is an interpolation either (a) added by St. Paul after the arrival of Titus, in consequence of the news he had received as to the state of the Corinthian Church; or (δ) belonging to another Pauline letter (possibly the Lost Epistle of 1 Cor. v. 9), and inserted here at a later date when a collection of Pauline letters began to be made; or (c) it has been regarded (¢.g., by Heinrici) asa fragment of an ancient homily, not by St. Paul, which has found a resting place here. It is urged in favour of the non- Pauline authorship of the section that (a) it contains a considerable number of words which do not occur elsewhere in St. Paul. To this it may be replied that ἑτεροζυγεῖν and βελίαρ have their origin in O.T. phraseology, while μολυσμός is a LXX word (see reff.) ; and that, as to the words μετοχή, συμφώνησις, συγκατά- θεσις, it is not surprising that some of the synonyms which are found in this section should be comparatively rare. It is not easy to find (as has here been done, with no small skill) five distinct terms to con- vey almost the same idea. (B) Schmiedel urges that the phrase ΕΣ ς σαρκός (vii. 1) is quite un-Pauline, and that it is inconsistent with St. Paul’s psychology to speak of being ‘‘cleansed" from it, inasmuch as for him the σάρξ is always tainted by sin. But there is no thought here of the taint of sin which remains in