Ver. 8. ἐάν τε γὰρ καὶ περισσότερόν κ.τ.λ.; for even if I should glory some- what abundantly (or, perhaps, ‘‘ some- what more abundantly,”’ sc., than I have already done in vv. 3-6; but the com- parative need not be pressed; cf. ii. 4), concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you fe and not for casting you down), I 5 not be put to shame, t.e., my confident words can be amply justified. He returns here to the image of ver. 4; his authority (and he repeats this again in the same words at ΧΙ, το) extends not solely or chiefly to the overthrow of the fortresses of mis-
4).
6—11,.
οὕτω καὶ ἡμεῖς Χριστοῦ.
καυχήσωμαι ὁ περὶ τῆς " ἐξουσίας ἡμῶν," ἧς ἔδωκεν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῖν ὃ εἰς ” οἰκοδομὴν καὶ οὐκ εἰς " καθαίρεσιν ὑμῶν, οὐκ " αἰσχυνθήσομαι " 9. ἵνα μὴ δόξω ὡς ἂν “ἐκφοβεῖν ὃ ὑμᾶς διὰ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν.
8. ἐάν τε” γὰρ καὶ ὃ
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περισσότερόν τι Y Chap. xii.
ix. 4, etc. z Chaps. xii. 1ο, Xiii..10; 1 Cor. xiv. 26, etc.
I . Ὁ a Reff. ver.
ὅτι αἱ μὲν" ἐπιστολαὶ, pyot,!? “Bapetar καὶ “ἰσχυραί: ἡ δὲ ᾿ παρουσία 4.
b Phil. i. 20.
τοῦ σώματος ἀσθενὴς, καὶ ὁ λόγος * ἐξουθενημένος" 11. τοῦτο λογι- eo.
a a 3 ~ ζέσθω ὁ " τοιοῦτος, ὅτι οἷοί ἐσμεν τῷ ᾿ λόγῳ BV ἐπιστολῶν ἀπόντες, 7; 1 John ν. 3
τοιοῦτοι καὶ παρόντες τῷ ᾿ ἔργῳ.
10, X. 22. f Reff. vii. 6. xv, 18; Col. iii. 17.
g Rom. xiv. 10; 1 Cor. vi. 4; Gal. iv. 14.
61 Cor. i.
25, 27, iv. h Reff. ii. 6, i Rom
1 DcEKL and the Bohairic support Χριστου after ἡμεῖς, but all the other prin-
cipal authorities omit it.
2 BG 17 and (perhaps) d, e, g, the Peshitto and Bohairic omit τε after εαν.
3 S$cDcE**L, the Peshitto and Harclean margin support και after yap; om. και $$*BCD*E*GP, the Latins, Bohairic and Harclean text.
4 BCDEK, followed by W.H., support καυχησωµαι; Tisch, reads καυχησομαι with