Ver. 20. φοβοῦμαι yap κ.τ.λ.: for I fear lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not, t.e., indignant to severity at their backsliding of x. 2), lest by any means there should be strife (cf. 1 Cor. 1. II, iii. 3), jealousy, ragings (this seems to be the force of the plur. θυμοί; cf. Wisd. vii. 20), factions (ἐριθεῖα is derived from ἔρῖθος, a hired labourer, and signifies a
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20. * φοβοῦμαι γὰρ, μή ἔπως ἐλθὼν οὐχ οἵους Υ Reff. x. 8.
Ζ Reff. xi. 3.
θέλω εὕρω ὑμᾶς, κἀγὼ εὑρεθῶ ὑμῖν οἷον οὐ θέλετε" μή πως " Epers,! 3 Romi. 29,
Lado? “ θυμοὶ, 1 ἐριθεῖαι, " καταλαλιαὶ, ᾿ ψιθυρισμοὶ, ὁ φυσιώσεις,
h
χι, τα” Gal. v. 20; Phil. i. 15.
ἀκαταστασίαι: 21. μὴ πάλιν ἐλθόντα ὃ µε ταπεινώσῃ * | ὁ | Θεός b Rom. xiii.
13; 1 Cor.
‘pou πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ πενθήσω πολλοὺς τῶν "προηµαρτηκότων, καὶ μὴ oe 3; Gal. Vv. 20,
μετανοησάντων ἐπὶ τῇ ''''"ἀκαθαρσίᾳ καὶ ᾿" “πορνείᾳ καὶ '" ἀσελγείᾳ c Rom. ii. 8;
ἜΣ al. ν. 20;
ἡ ἔπραξαν. Eph. iv. : : Fe ats τι wg hoes 31; Ol.
ii. 8. d Rom. ii. 8; Gal. v. 20; Phil. i. 17, ii. 3. 61 Pet. ii. 1 only; Wisd. i. 11. f Here
only. g Here only; cf. 1 Cor. iv. 6, 18, v. 2, Viil. 1. h Reff. vi. 5. i Rom. 1, 8; Phil. i. 3, iv.
19; Philm.4. _k Chap. xiii. 2 only. 1Gal.v.19. mEph.v.3; Col.iii.5. π Eph. iv. 19.
o 1 Cor. v. 1, Vi. 13, 18, Vil. 2.
1 BDEGKLP, the Latin, Egyptian and Harclean vss, give ερεις; Tisch. and W.H. read ερις with ΝΑ 17 and the Peshitto.
2 SDbcEKLP, the Latin, Egyptian and Harclean vss. support ζηλοι; Tisch. and W.H. read ζηλος with ABD*G 17 and the Peshitto.
> sgcDcKL support ελθοντα pe; better ελθοντος µου with S*ABGP, placing pe
after ταπειν.
Δ SAK support ταπεινωσῃ; BDEGLP have ταπεινωσει.
mercenary cabal), backbitings, whisper- ings (1.6., open and secret defamation of character), swellings, i.e., insolences, tumults (see on vi. 5). Cf. Jas. iii. 16, ὅπου yap ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκατα- στασία.
Ver. 21. μὴ πάλιν ἐλθόντος μου κ.τ.λ. ; lest when I come, my God should humble me again before you, sc., because of the scanty fruit of his preaching (as had been the case on his second visit), and I should mourn for many (observe, not ‘‘all”’) that have sinned heretofore, {.6., before my-second visit, and did not repent, 1.6., after my second visit (we thus retain the force of the aorist part; for μετανοέω see on Vil. 9, and for μετανοεῖν ἐπὶ cf. Joel ii. 13, Amos vii. 3), of the uncleanness and fornication and lascivi- ousness which they committed. There is nothing in the anxiety here expressed which is inconsistent with the language of vii. 9 ff. There he expresses his satis- faction that in the matter of the incestuous person the Corinthians had obeyed his directions; but their proneness to sins of
the flesh he is fully alive to. See, e.g., vi. 14, Vil. 1. CHAPTER XIII.—Vv. 1-10. IF HE
COMES AGAIN, HE WILL NOT SPARE: CHRIST IS HIS STRENGTH: LET THE Cor- INTHIANS SEE TO IT THAT HE BE THEIRS ALSO. — Ver. 1. τρίτον τοῦτο κ.τ.λ.: this is the third time I am coming to you. ‘At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.” That is, he will hold a formal enquiry in the strict
legal way (see reff.) when he arrives. No evasions will be possible.
Ver. 2. προείρηκα καὶ προλ. κ.τ.λ.: I have said beforehand (at chap. x. 6, 11, xil. 21), and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time (cf. ii. 1, xii, 14), so now being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, i.e., before my second visit (as at xii. 21), and to all the vest, 1.6., any more recent offenders, that if I come again I will not spare. It was **to spare’ them that he had paid hither- to no further visit after his second (i. 23). He proceeds to give the reason why he will not “spare” if such a visit should be necessary; viz., they have challenged his Apostolic authority.