from swollen torrents dangerous to ford (Stanley notes that Frederick Bar- barossa was drowned in the Calycadnus, not far from Tarsus; see Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire, p. 23, for several illustrations of the dangers of the Pisidian highlands), in perils of robbers, on account of whom travelling in Asia Minor was, and still is, dangerous (the district of Perga and Pamphylia which St. Paul traversed on his first missionary journey was notorious for brigands; see Strabo, xii., 6, 7), in perils from my kin- dred, {.ε., persecutions at the hands of the ‘Jews which he had suffered (see Acts ix. 23, 20, xiii. 5ο, xiv. 5, 19, XVii. 5, 13, xviii. 12, 1 Thess. ii. 15), and from which he was yet to suffer more (Acts
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θαλάσσῃ, κινδύνοις ἐν " ψευδαδέλφοις: 27. ἐν] “κόπῳ καὶ “ μόχθῳ, Ἡ Cal ii 4
only.
ἐν " ἀγρυπνίαις πολλάκις,” ἐν Twa καὶ * δίψει, ἐν " νηστείαις πολ- 9 1 Thess.
1.9; 2
λάκις,” ἐν "ψύχει καὶ “ γυμνότητι - 28. χωρὶς τῶν “παρεκτὸς, ἡ Thess. iil
ἐπισύστασίςά pou” ἡ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, ἡ "μέριμνα πασῶν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν. P Rell. vi. 5.
q Rom. viii.
29. τίς " ἀσθενεῖ, καὶ οὐκ ἀσθενῶ ; τίς " σκανδαλίζεται, καὶ οὐκ ἐγὼ 55.
s Acts xxviii. 2. ν Reff. ver. 21.
t Matt. v. 32; Acts xxvi. 29 only. w Rom. xiv. 21; 1 Cor. viii. 13.
r Here only. u Mark iv. 19; Luke xxi. 34; 1 Pet. v. 7.
1 NcKLMP, f, vg., etc., support ev κοπῳ; better om. εν with ὃν ΒΡΕ, d, ε, δ. 2 D*, d, e, f, vg. and the Peshitto have πολλαις (twice) for πολλακις.
5B has διψη.
4KLMP support επισυστασις; better επιστασις with $BDEG 17 (cf. Acts xxiv.
12) and vg. = instantia,
5 &$cDEKLMP, ἢ, g, vg. support pov; better por with ἂν Β 17.
XX. 3, ΧΧΙ. 31, xxiii. 12, xxv. 3), tn perils from the Gentiles, as, e.g., at Iconium (Acts xiv. 5), at Philippi (Acts xvi. 20) and at Ephesus (Acts xix. 23), in perils in the city (Acts xxi. 31 and passim), in the desert (Arabia (2), Gal. i. 17), in the sea, {.6., in town and country, by land and by water, in perils among false brethren, i.e., probably the Judaisers who were his bitter opponents (cf. ver. 13 and Gal. ii. 4).
Ver. 27. κόπῳ Kal pox. κ.τ.λ.; I” labour and travail, in watchings often (see on vi. 5), in hunger and thirst (cf. τ Cor. iv. 11, Phil. iv. 12), in fastings often, i.e., plainly, in involuntary deprivation of all food (the idea of voluntary de- votional fastings is quite foreign to the context here, and to bring it in spoils the rhetorical force of the passage; see on vi. 5), in cold and nakedness (cf. 1 Cor. iv. II).
Ver. 28. χωρὶς τῶν παρ. K.T.A.: be- sides the things which I omit (see reff., and cf, Heb. xi. 32; the A.V. ‘those things that are without”? = vulg. quae sunt extrinsecus, is wrong), there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches (see on viii. 18). ἐπισύστασις of the rec. text means a combination for hostile purposes, and is used of Korah’s rebellion in Num. xvi. 40, xxvi. 9, in which latter place we have the same textual variants as here (cf. also 1 Esdr. ν. 73). This may be the true reading, both here and at Acts xxiv. 12, for the syllable ov might readily drop out in transcription. If it be adopted here it would refer to the cabals of the Apostle’s adversaries = ‘the daily com- bination against me,” and would thus indicate a trial distinct from ‘‘the care of all the churches,” which is next
mentioned. But, although this gives a good sense, we prefer to read ἐπίστασις as better supported both here and at Acts xxiv. 12 (the only places of its occurrence in N.T.). Polybius uses the word as = ‘‘attention,”’ ‘‘ close observa- tion,” but this will not suit Acts xxiv. 12. It is foundin 2 Macc. vi. 3 as = ‘ visitation ” or ‘‘ pressure,” and the latter rendering seems best to satisfy the con- text here. We have therefore followed the Revisers in adopting the Vulgate render- ing instantia = ‘that which presseth,” and in taking Ἡ μέριμνα κ.τ.λ. as in apposition with ἣ ἐπίστασις.