14-22.
εὐαγγελίῳ διὰ πασῶν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν" 19. "οὐ " μόνον δὲ,
ἈΝ ‘ | - 3 ~ τ ΣΡ ean | m8 ΩΣ καὶ " χειροτονηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν συνέκδηµος ἡμῶν 1 σῦν 2 τῇ χάριτι ταύτῃ, τῇ διακονουμένῃ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν πρὸς τὴν αὐτοῦ ὃ τοῦ Κυρίου δόξαν, καὶ " προθυμίαν ὑμῶν: 20. 7 στελλόμενοι τοῦτο, μή τις ἡμᾶς “μωμήσηται ἐν τῇ " ἁδρότητι ταύτῃ τῇ διακονουμένῃ ὑφ᾽
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α ἀλλὰυ Reff. vii. 7. v Acts xiv. 23 only. w Acts xix. 29 only;
ch.
Τὰ: y 2 Thess.
ἡμῶν" 21. mpovoodpevor® καλὰ οὐ μόνον ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ iii. 6 only;
ἐνώπιον ἀνθρώπων. a ὃν
b Prov. iii. 4.
1 DE add eyevero after ημων.
22. “Συνεπέμψαμεν δὲ αὐτοῖς τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἡμῶν,
cf. Acts XX. 20; Gal. ii. 12.
4 ἐδοκιμάσαμεν ἐν πολλοῖς πολλάκις "σπουδαῖον ὄντα, νυνὶ δὲ 2 Κε. vi. 3.
a Here only.
ς σετ, 18 only. dReff.ver.8. ο Reff. ver. 17.
2 BCP, f, vg. and the Bohairic (followed by W.H.) read ev for συν, which is found
in DEGKL, ἆ, e, g and the Syriac vss.
3 SDbcEK and the Syriac vss. support αυτον; BCD*GL, the Latins and Bohairic
omit it.
+ vpwv after προθ. is found in F and a few cursives only; ημων is read by all the
principal uncials and vss.
5 KL support προνοουµενοι καλα; C 17, 73 and Bohairic give προν. γαρ καλα; better προνοουμεν yap καλα with the other uncials and vss.
persons so important as (e.g.) Apollos or Silas; and, again, that, as he was appar- ently not a Macedonian (ix. 4), he cannot be any of the prominent members of the Macedonian Church (see on ver. 5 above). Trophimus the Ephesian is not impossible (see Acts xx. 4, xxi. 29), but it is idle to speculate where the evidence is so scanty. The important point about this unnamed brother is that he was selected not by St. Paul, but by the Churches who took part in the work of collecting money as their representative as is now explained.
Ver. 19. οὐ μόνον δὲ ἀλλὰ κ.τ.λ.;: and not only so, but who was also appointed (χειροτονεῖν is, strictly, to vote by a show of hands, and hence it came to mean **to elect”) by the Churches, {.6., all the local congregations interested, as our fellow traveller in the matter of this grace (reading év; see crit. note), sc., this contribution of money (see vv. 6, 7, 1 Cor. xvi. 3), which is being ministered by us to exhibit the glory of the Lord (cf. iv. 15), and our readiness. The MS. evidence requires us to read ἡμῶν, but it must be confessed that ὑμῶν is rather what we should expect, especially as προθυμία in ver. 11 and in ix. 2 is applied to the Corinthians and not to St. Paul; a plausible conjecture would be κατὰ προθυμίαν ἡμῶν for καὶ προθ. ἡμ., but the words give an intelligible sense as they stand (see Gal. ii. 10).
Ver. 20. στελλύμενοι τοῦτο κ.τ.λ. : avoiding this (στελλέσθαι might mean
“to prepare” as at Wisd. xiv. 1, 2 Macc. v. I, but Mal. ii. 5 and reff. make us decide for the Vulgate rendering devi- tantes ; the metaphor is a naval one, of shifting sail so as to avoid an enemy’s pursuit), that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty (see xii. 18; ἁδρός = full, ripe, rich, as at 1 Kings i. 9, Job xxxiv. τὸ, Isa. xxxiv. 7, Jer. v. 5, and so ἀδρότης stands for a considerable and liberal—a ‘‘ fat’? — contribution) which is being administered by us. For the broken constr. στελλόμενοι κ.τ.λ. Cf. ν, πο Vile δ.
Ver. 21. προνοοῦμεν γὰρ κ.τ.λ.: for “we provide things honest” not only “in the sight of the Lord,” but also ‘in the sight of men,” an injunction in the Pro- verbs which the Apostle quotes again at Rom, xii. 17. Where other people’s money