at in the three words ἠδικήσαμεν, ἐφθεί-
paper, ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν. They are used quite generally, the only one that offers
any ambiguity being the second, φθείρειν often (see reff.), though not always, carrying a reference to bodily defile- ment through lust; here (as at 1 Cor. iii. 17) it seems to connote injury of any sort. Ver. 3. πρὸς κατάκρ. κ.τ.λ.: I do not say this by way of condemnation (i.¢., do not think that I accuse you of mistrustin me); for I have said before (viz., in iii. 2, vi. 11) that ye are in our hearts (cf. Phil. i. 7) to die together and to live to- gether (cf. i. 6), ἐ.ε., your image is in my heart in life and in death. ere there is such a wealth of sympathy as this, there can be no thought of “ condemna- tion”. Wetstein gives a good verbal parallel from Athenzus (vi., 249), τούτονς
ἔς
οὐδένα | ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν.
‘ cv > is , ε fal > Q) > Ν ρῆκα γὰρ ὅτι ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν ἐστε“ εἰς τὸ
καὶ " συζῆν. 4. πολλή μοι
p , ε ‘ Ἑ τον καύχησις ὕπερ ὑμῶν"
σεύομαι τῇ” χαρᾷ ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ "θλίψει ἡμῶν. ς lal 3 , ih , ” 6 ἡμῶν εἰς Μακεδονίαν, οὐδεμίαν ἔσχηκεν
ἀλλ᾽ "ἐν "παντὶ ᾿ θλιβόμενοι 7 - ἔξωθεν μάχαι, ἔσωθεν φόβοι.
ἀλλ᾽ ὁ “παρακαλῶν τοὺς “*
ο του 7. *
3. ob! πρὸς " κατάκρισιν λέγω"
οὐ * μόνον χ δὲ 8
81
i Reff, ii, τα, ' προεί- k Chap. iii.
™ συναποθανεῖν, 8 only. Ν 3 1 Chap. xiii ο - 1 Δ ε » , 2. παῤῥησία πρὸς ὃ ὑμᾶς, πολλή μοι ΘΕ ΤΣ ή η 4 4 § = 31; 2 Lim. πεπλήρωμαι τῇ ed ος οι, καὶ γὰρ ἐλθούντων n Rom. vi. Ἢ 5: we ξ 8; 2 Tim. ἄνεσιν σὰ ὧν, [10 τι only. ) ἡ Ρ ἡμ 2ο Reff.iii.rz, 6. p Reff. i. 12.
Rom. v.
ης παρεκάλεσεν πο 6 Θεὸς 20 only.
r Reff. i. 4. ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ αὐτοῦ, Ε eee ii. 13. Reff, iv. 8,
ary καὶ ἐν τῇ παρακλήσει ἣ παρεκλήθη ἐφ᾽ ὑμῖν, ἀναγγέλλων ε u Isa. xlix.
ἡμῖν Ὁ τὴν ὑμῶν % ἐπιπόθησιν, τὸν ὑμῶν
29; Lk. i. 52; Rom. xii, 16; chap. x. 1; Jas. i. 9. iv. 6;
x. 10; Phil. i. 26, ii. 12. reff. Vi 2. xi. 2; Phil. iii. 6; Col. iv. 13.
x Rom. v. 3, πε, Viil. 23, ix. 10; chap. viii. το, etc. z Matt. ii. ἘΠ ον ΧΧΧΙ, 15); 2 Macc. ΧΙ. 6 only.
13; see reff. i. 4. v Matt. xi. w I Cor. xvi. 17; chap. Ver. 11 only; οἵ. a Rom. x. 2; chaps. vii. 11, ix. 2,
* ὀδυρμὸν, τὸν ὑμῶν " ζῆλον
1 Pet. v. 5 only.
lov προς κατακρ. is the order of DEGKL, etc.; better προς κατακρ. ov with
SBCP. 2B om. εστε. 4B has ev ty xapq.
3 D*E, d, e and the Peshitto have προς υμας εστιν. 5 After πασῃ τῃ D*E* have πολλῃ-
8 S&8CDELP have εσχηκεν; BGK have εσχεν; CG and the Syriac vss. put eo x.
after ανεσιν. 7 Ὁ", d, e give θλιβομενος. ΣΝ ΓΣ have avayy. υμιγ.
δ᾽ οἱ βασιλεῖς ἔχουσι συζῶντας καὶ συν- αποθνησκόντας.
Ver. 4. πολλή μοι παρρησία κ.τ.λ.] great is my boldness of speech towards you (cf. vi. 11), great 15 my glorying on your behalf, sc., on account of the good news of their conduct (cf. i. 14, iii. 2), I am filled with comfort (for the constr. cf. Luke ii. 40, Rom. i. 29, 2 Macc. vii. 21), sc., with the comfort (note the article) which Titus had brought, I overflow with joy (cf. Phil. ii. 17, Col. i. 24) 2 all our affliction (see vi. 10).
Vv. 5-12. HE WAS COMFORTED TO LEARN FROM TITUS THAT HIS REBUKE HAD BEEN PROFITABLE. Cf. throughout 1 Thess. ili. 1-8, a passage strikingly like this in its human sympathy and kindli- ness.—Ver. 5. καὶ yap ἐλθόντων κ.τ.λ.: for even when we were come into Mace- donia (he has explained in ii, 12 his anxiety when he was at Troas, but it remained with him even when he had crossed into Europe) our flesh had no velicf (see note on the similar phrase, ii.