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12. ἄρα εἰ καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν, οὐχ εἵνεκεν τοῦ ἀδικήσαντος, οὐδὲ 3 u Reff. ii. 14.
v Reff. iv, 2.
εἵνεκεν τοῦ ἀδικηθέντος 1+ ἀλλ᾽ εἵνεκεν τοῦ " φανερωθῆναι τὴν 'σπου- ν τ Cor.
δὲ Be χὰ ‘ ς Ν ε a 4 ‘ ek a ν ην υρων την υπερ ημων ΄“ πρὸς υμας
Xvi. 18;
ἐνώπιον τοῦ “Θεοῦ. 13. Διὰ Philm.
A , MON) δα , Con! ἢ / δὲ ὃ 7, 20. τοῦτο παρακεκλήμεθα ἐπὶ τῇ παρακλήσει ὑμῶν 5" περισσοτέρως δὲ χ See on
μᾶλλον ἐχάρημεν ἐπὶ τῇ χαρᾷ Τίτου, ὅτι " ἀναπέπαυται τὸ * πνεῦμα
1 D*E have αδικηθεντος . . - αδικησαντος.
δα (not F), d*, g give σπουδὴν ημων.
ii. 13.
2 NcB, 37, 73 have αλλ) ουδε. 4 SQD*F have ὑπερ υμων.
5 FKL, the Bohairic and Harclean support παρακλ. vpwv; better ηµων with
SBCDEGP, vg. and Peshitto.
6 All the uncials place δε, not before μαλλον, but between επι and ty παρακλήσει.
spectantis et sequentis ”), worketh repent- ance which leads tosalvation, arepentance which bringeth no regret. ἀμεταμέλητον may be taken with σωτηρία (see Κ.Υ. margin), but there would be no point in applying such an adj. to σωτηρία, where- as it iS quite apposite as applied to μετάνοια (as by Chrys., R.V., etc.).—4 δὲ τοῦ κόσμου κ.τ.λ.: but the sorrow of the world, sc., such sorrow as the world feels—for failure, not for sin— worketh out death, sc.,as opposed to σωτηρία (cf. chap. ii. 16).
Ver. 11. ἰδοὺ γὰρ αὐτὸ κ.τ.λ.: for behold, this same thing, viz., that you were made sorry after a godly sort, what diligence it wrought in you, yea (sc., ‘not only so, but also,” ἀλλά introducing an accessory idea) what a defence, sc., of yourselves to me through the mediation of Titus, yea what indignation, yea what fear, sc., of St. Paul’s rebukes, yea what longing, sc., that he should come to them (see ver. 7), yea what zeal, sc., on behalf of God and righteousness, yea what avenging, sc., the heavy punishment solemnly inflicted on the offender in God’s name (chap. ii. 6). Observe that ἐκδί- κησις and ἐκδικέω are always (see reff. and Luke xviii. 7, 1 Pet. ii. 14, etc.) used of God’s avenging of sin, not of man’s retaliation.—év παντὶ κ.τ.λ.: im every- thing ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter, i.e., not that they were quite free from gross sins of the flesh (see xii, 21), but that by their ready compli- ance with the Apostle’s directions they had cleared themselves from the guilt of connivance at incest (see ii. 6). τῷ πράγματι (the dat. of regard) is a vague phrase used here and at 1 Thess. iv. 6 to denote abominable wickedness.
Ver. 12. ἄρα εἰ καὶ ἔγραψα κ.τ.λ.; consequently, although I wrote to you, i.e., wrote a severe letter, {έ was not for his cause that did the wrong, sc., the inces-
tuous son of 1 Cor. v. 1, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, sc., his father, but that your diligence on our behalf might be made manifest to yourselves (‘chez vous,” so πρὸς ὑμᾶς, 1 Thess. ili. 4) in the sight of God. He does not mean that this was the only reason for writing (cf. ii. g), and that the more obvious reason was not in his mind; but he states strongly (expressing himself by an idiom common in the Ο.Τ., e.g., Jer. vii. 22) a principal cause of his writing, viz., that the Corinthian Church might be recalled to a true sense of what was due to its founder, as if it were the, only cause. See on ii. 9, and, for a discussion of the whole question, see Introd., Ῥ. 1ο ff.
Ver. 13. διὰ τοῦτο παρακεκλ.: where- fore we have been comforted. With Tisch., W.H. and modern editors gene- tally we place a full stop here. What follows introduces a new idea.