Cuapter X.—Vv. 1-6. He Beas THEM NOT TO FORCE HIM TO EXERT HIS AUTHORITY WITH SEVERITY WHEN HE comes. He first expresses the hope that their conduct will be such as to admit of his being ‘meek and gentle” when he arrives at Corinth, of his coming in a “spirit of meekness,” and not “with a rod” (x Cor. iv. 21).—Ver. 1. αὐτὸς δὲ ἐγὼ Παῦλος κ.τ.λ.: now (δέ marks a transition to a new subject, as at viii. 1, 1 Cor, xv. 1) I Paul myself (αὐτὸς ἐγὼ, calling attention to a specially personal matter as at xii. 13, Rom. ix. 3, xv. 14; he writes ἐγὼ Παῦλος elsewhere at Gal. v. 2, Eph. iii. 1, Philm. το only, for the sake of emphasis) entreat you (cf. i. 4, and for the constr. παρακαλῶ διὰ cf. Rom. xii. 1, xv. 30, 1 Cor. i. 10; the πραύτης καὶ ἐπιείκεια τοῦ Xp. are the example which
ives point to the entreaty or exhortation) By the meckness and gentleness of the Christ. That the Messianic King should be mpavs had been declared by Zechariah (ix. 9, cited Matt. xxi.’5), while πραύτης had been associated with His royal pro-
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X. 1. ΑΥΤΟΣ δὲ ἐγὼ Παῦλος παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς διὰ τῆς "πραότητος 3 Ὃ πο
καὶ " ἐπιεικείας τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃς "κατὰ “ πρόσωπον μὲν “ ταπεινὸς ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀπὼν δὲ “θαῤῥῶ eis? ὑμᾶς" 2. δέοµαι δὲ, τὸ μὴ παρὼν θαρρῆσαι
ν. 23; Eph. iv. 2; Col. iii. 12.
τῇ ® πεποιθήσει ὃ ἡ λογίζομαι Ἀτολμῆσαι ἐπί τινας τοὺς λογιζομένους > ms xxiv.
ἡμᾶς ὡς ‘kata ᾿ σάρκα | περιπατοῦντας. 3.
only;
‘ ‘ P τ σαρκι γὰρ πέρι- τ ἄρ
k ἐν κ
πατοῦντες, οὐ κατὰ σάρκα 'στρατευόμεθα: 4. (τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς Tim. iii.
Ἢ στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς "καθαίρεσιν “ὀχυρωμάτων ") 5. Ρλογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες καὶ πᾶν “ ὕψωμα "ἐπαιρό- 4
μενον κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ
g Reff. i. 15. h 1 Cor. vi. 1; chap. xi. 21, etc. Phil. i. 22; Col. ii. 1, ete. n Ver. 8, chap. xiii. 10 only. ο Here only. 39 only. r Chap. xi. 20; Ezra iv. 19. t Reff. ii. 11,
11 Cor. ix. 7; 1 Tim. i. 18; 2 Tim. ii. 4.
3; Jas. iii. 17. ο Acts iii. 13,XXv.16. d Reff. vii. 6.
"αἰχμαλωτίζοντες πᾶν "νόημα e Reff. v. 6.
f Reff. v. 20. k Gal. ii. 20; m 1 Tim. i. 18 only. p Rom. ii. 15 only; Prov. vi. 18. q Rom. viii.
s Lk. xxi. 24; Rom. vii. 23; 2 Tim. iii. 6 only.
i Rom. viii. 4; cf. reff. i. 17.
1 The better spelling is πραυτητος with ΒΑΡ 17. 2 P and the Latins give ev υμιν for εἰς vpas. 3 C? and the Bohairic add ταντῃ (cf. i. 15) after τῃ πεπ.
4G, d,e, 6, mom. και.
gress by the Psalmist (Ps. xliv. 5); and Christ, when He came, declared that he was πραῦς καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ, a claim which His life on earth abundantly exemplified (cf. Matt. xii. 19, Luke xxiii. 34). So too in the wonderful portrait of the Righteous Man in Wisd. ii. 12 ff., ἐπιείκεια, ‘ gentleness,” ‘‘ sweet reason- ableness,” is one of the qualities men- tioned (ver. 19). In Greek Ethics (e.g., Aristotle, Nic. Eth., v., 10) the ἐπιεικής is the “ equitable”? man, who does not press for the last farthing of his rights (see τεβ,). St. Paul alludes to these qualities as well known to have belonged to the character of Jesus, even as they had been foretold of the Messiah.—és κατὰ πρό- σωπον κ.τ.λ.: I Paul, who indeed (sc., as you say by way of reproach, the conces- sive μέν) before your face am lowly among you (he had admitted this before, 1 Cor. ii. 3 and chap. vii. 6, and the lowliness of his demeanour had been made the subject of adverse comment, see further ver. 10), but being absent am of good courage to- wards you, t.e.,am outspoken in rebuke of you (a quite different phrase from θαρρῶ ἐν ὑμῖν of vii. 16).