Ver. 30. ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ: for we are members of His body. The μέλη, which is the heart of the state- ment, has the emphatic position. Weare not something apart from Christ, nor do we occupy only an accidental relation to Him, Weare veritable parts of that body of which He is head, and this is the rea- son why He nourishes and cherishes the Church ; cf. the detailed description in 1 Cor. xii. 12-27.--ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ: being of His flesh and of His bones. This sentence, which is added by the TR, has con- siderable documentary testimony—*D GLP, most cursives, such Versions as the Syr. and the Arm., and such Fathers as Iren., Jer., etc. If it is retained, as is
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᾿Ησε ὀστέων αὐτοῦ. 31. " ἀντὶ "τούτου “ καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος πατέρα only ; see
Luke xii. καὶ μητέρα, καὶ "προσκολληθήσεται ὅ πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα ὁ αὐτοῦ, 4 Matt. xix. 5 from Gen. ii. 24; 1 Thess. iii. 1 al. r Acts v. 36.
lex τ. σ. GUT. κ. ἐκ τ. οστ. αντ. OM. Μ ΑΒ 17, 67°, Copt., Eth., Euth.; insert "DEFGLP, also K, but with τον σωµατος for των οστεων, most others, Vulg., Syr., Arm., Chr., Thdrt., Dam., al., Jer., al.
2 rov πατερα SAD°EKLP, etc., Marc., Orig., Euth., Meth., Chr., etc.; πατερα without τον BD*FG ; πατερα without αὐτου N*BD*FG 17, 673, 73, 115, Vulg., Syr.- P., Arm.,, Orig., etc. ; insert αντον Ν΄ ΑΡ'ΕΚΙ.Ρ, etc., Syr.-Sch., Cop., Eth., Marc., Meth., etc. ; την µητερα, with same authorities mostly as for τον watepa ; omit την BD*FG.
5 κολληθησεται ΓΕ, Marc., Epiph.
4 49 °F i . τη γυναικι N*AD*FG 17, 37, 116, It., Vulg., Lat. Fathers, Meth., Epiph. ; π τὴν γυναικα $Y°BD*EKL, most cursives, Orig.., Chr., Thdrt.o, al. Sait
done by Mey., ΕΙῑ., Reiche, Alf., etc., it will be an explanation of the affirmation that we are μέλη τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ, drawn from the thought of our origin (ἐκ). Weare members of Christ's body, as having the source of our spiritual being in Him. This statement of our spiritual origin is expressed in terms like those used ofthe origin of our physical life, the allu- sion being probably to the record of the for- mation of Eve in Gen. ii. 23. As the first woman derived her physical being from Adam in the way there recorded, so we ‘Christians draw our spiritual being from Christ. The evidence, however, is de- cidedly adverse, the clause not — in ΒΜ ΓΑ, 17, 673, Boh., Eth., ethod., Euthal., Origen (prob.), etc. The inter- nal evidence may be said to be against it, in so far, ¢.g., a8 a new figure is suddenly introduced, the statement is carried be- yond the idea of relationship, and no clear or congruous meaning can be readily attached to the new terms, flesh and bones. Nor is it easy in face of evidence so old and so various to suppose that the words were mistakenly omitted by homceote- leuton. The clause, therefore, is deleted from the text by LTTrWHRYV/;; Tr., how- ever, giving it a place on the margin. Ver. 31. ἀντὶ τούτον καταλείψει ἄν- θρωπος [τὸν] πατέρα [αὐτοῦ] καὶ [τὴν] μητέρα : for this cause shall a man leave this) father and mother. Lachm. and Tregelles omit τόν and τήν; which are bracketed by WH. The αὐτοῦ is omitted by LTTrWHRY, as not supported by BN*D*G, 17, Vulg., Arm., etc. It is found in ΓΑ ΚΕ, Syr.-P., Boh., etc. These words, whether Paul gives them professedly as a quotation in a free form, or uses them directly, making them his own (Mey.), are substantially those which in Gen, ii. 24 follow the statement re-
garding Eve as bone of Adam’s bone and flesh of his flesh. ἀντὶ τούτου corre- sponds to the ἕνεκεν τούτου of Gen. ii. 24; ἀντί, the prep. of exchange and succes- sion, being used also, like the Hebrew