to take the words as reproducing the charge against the Apostle commonly made by those who were disaffected at Corinth. They are ‘‘remarkable as giv- ing a contemporary judgment on his Epistles, and a personal description of himself” (Stanley).— δὲ παρουσία τοῦ σώματος k.t.A.: “διέ his bodily presence is weak (see chap. xii. 7, Gal. iv. 14, and Acts xiv. 12, where the Lystrans called Barnabas ‘‘ Zeus,” and evidently there- fore counted him as of more dignified presence than his companion) and his speech contemptible”; cf. 1 Cor. i. 17. Persuasive speaker as St. Paul must have been (the Lystrans called him Hermes as ‘* the chief speaker ’’), he probably had not the arts of a trained rhetorician (1 Cor. 1. 17, ii. 1, 4, Chap. xi. 6), and this would appear a grave defect to these clever and shallow Greeks. According to the second century Acts of Paul and Thecla (§ 3) the Apostle was a low-sized man, bow-legged, of a healthy com- plexion, with eyebrows knit together (the Armenian version adds that his eyes were blue), and an aquiline nose. The descrip- tion of him in the piece called Philopatris (§ 13), ascribed to Lucian, is very similar.
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k Reff. ver. 2
12. Οὐ γὰρ "τολμῶμεν; | ἐγκρῖναι 3 ἢ " συγκρῖναι ἑαυτούς τισι τῶν
1 Here only." ἑαυτοὺς " συνιστανόντων - ἀλλὰ αὐτοὶ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ἑαυτοὺς 3 “ μετροῦν-
m 1 Cor. il. 13 only. n Reff. iti. 1.
τες, καὶ συγκρίνοντες ἑαυτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς, οὐ "συνιοῦσιν. 13. ἡμεῖς δὲ
ὁ Here only οὐχὶ εἰς TAS ᾿ ἄμετρα καυχησόµεθα, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ " μέτρον τοῦ
in Paul. 4 - καὶ ὑμῶν.
; Eph. iv. 7.
u Here only. v Matt. xii.
B has τολμω.
5 Vv. 15, 16; Gal. vi. 16; Phil. iii. 16 only. ; Rom. ix. 31; Phil. iii. 16; 1 Thess. ii.
an κανόνος 057 " ἐμέρισεν 1 ἡμῖν ὃ ὁ " Θεὸς ὃ μέτρου, " ἐφικέσθαι 1’ ἄχρι 14. οὐ! γὰρ ὡς μὴ ἐφικνούμενοι 15" εἰς ὑμᾶς " ὑπερεκτείνομεν ° ἑαυτούς: ἄχρι yap! καὶ ὑμῶν " ἐφθάσαμεν ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ
ἕω. 1 Cor. vii. 17. 1
2G has κριναι; DE add eavrovs.
3 om. εαντους before µετρ.; DEK 73 have εαντονς εαντοις.
4 DcEKLP support συνιουσιν ; better συνιασιν with $B 17, 37; N* has συνισ- agi ; om, ov συν. ἡμεῖς δε D*G, ἆ, ε, f, g (see note below).
5 D*G and the Latins give εἰς To ἀμετρον.
6G, ἢ, g give kavxwpevor; Om. κανχ. DY, δ. ἃς
ΤΜ 67**, d, ε, ἢ, g, vg. Εἶνε οσον ἐμετρησεν.
®GL, g, om. ἡμιν.
ΣΤΕ, d, e give Κνριος.
1 DE have αφικεσθαι.
Ἡ Ῥ has ov yap μὴ ws; B has simply ws yep µη, which W.H. place in their
margin. 12 Καὶ has αφικνουμένοι ; G, adixopevor.
Ver. 11. τοῦτο λογιζέσθω κ.τ.λ.; let such an one, sc., as makes comments οὗ the kind just quoted, reckon this, that (cf. constr. ver. 7) what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
Ver. 12. ob γὰρ τολμῶμεν κ.τ.λ.; for we do not venture (an ironical refusal to put himself on a level with his adver- saries, whose shallow pretensions he thus quietly exposes) fo mumber or com- pare ourselves (note the paronomasia in the Greek) with certain of them that commend themselves (the charge made against him—see on iii. 1—he retorts with great effect on his opponents) ; but they themselves measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves are without understanding (cf. Prov. xxvi. 12). This sentence 15 so much involved, that it is not surprising to find the Western authorities (see crit. note) giving it a quite different turn by the omission of the words οὐ συνιοῦσιν (or συνιᾶσιν) ἡμεῖς 88... καυχησόμεθα. Following this shorter text, the meaning would be: “ but we are measuring our- selves by ourselves and comparing our- selves with ourselves, not going into spheres beyond our measure,” etc. This gives a connected sense, and is favoured by the fact that the balance of the sen- tence leads us to expect that αὐτοὶ after