15 δ" om. yap after αχρι.
ἀλλὰ shall refer to the Apostle, and not to his opponents, as it must do with the longer reading. Nevertheless we believe that the omission is simply an attempt to evade the difficulty of the true text; it would be quite unlike St. Paul to speak of himself as his own standard of con- duct, and would not be harmonious with the thought of ver. 13. Others take συνιοῦσιν as a dative participle and adopt the rendering: “ but we (i.¢., St. Paul) measure ourselves by
and compare ourselves with ourselves, unwise as we are” (sc., in their opinion). This, however, is not only open to the objection just mentioned, but would re- quire τοῖς before οὐ συνιοῦσιν. On the whole, therefore, we prefer to follow the best MS. authority by reading συνιᾶσιν, and to treat the Western text as an ab- breviation, which misses the point of the argument in the attempt to simplify the construction.
Ver. 13. ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐχὶ κ.τ.λ.: but we will not glory beyond our measure (els τὰ representing the direction and extent of his boasting), but accordi to the measure of the rule which (οὗ tor ὅν by attraction) God hath apportioned (see reff.) fo us as a measure, to reach (the infin. of purpose) even unto you. κανών is a line of direction (see reff., and cf. Clem. Rom., § 41, μὴ παρεκβαίνων τὸν
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Χριστοῦ 15. οὐκ εἰς τὰ ἄμετρα καυχώμενοι ἐν "ἀλλοτρίοις " κόποις, ἐλπίδα δὲ ἔχοντες, αὐξανομένης τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν, ἐν ὑμῖν ” μεγα-