a witness to mine—that Christ dwells in you is a proof that He dwells in me, who preached Him to you. Cf. chap. i. 24, ul. 2. 5 Ver. 5. ἑαντοὺς πειράζετε κ.τ.λ. : try your own selves (πειράζειν generally has a sinister sense in the Ν.Τ, = “to tempt,” as at 1 Cor. vii. 5, x. 9, Gal. vi. 1, 1 Thess. iii. 5; but see reff.) whether ye be in the Faith, sc., the objective Christian Creed (cf. 1 Cor. xvi. 13) ; prove
your own selves (δοκιμάζειν goes back to Soxipy of ver. 3; cf. also ἀδόκιμοι at the end of this verse). Or know ye not as to
your own selves that Fesus Christ is in you ? (cf. Rom. viii. το, Gal. iv. το) un- less indeed, sc., which is certainly not the case (for εἰ μή τι ke Luke ix. 13, 1 Cor. vii. 5) ye are reprobate, ἀδόκιμος is that which will not satisfy a test, and so = reprobus. Their own consciousness of the power of Christ’s grace is the best proof that his preaching to them was Divinely authorised; he “ begat them in Christ Jesus" (1 Cor. iv. 15).
Ver. 6. ἐλπίζω δὲ oS, ὡ but, how- ever it may be with you, I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate, that
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