be man
7
14--τ7.
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δὲ καὶ δι "εὐδοκίαν τὸν Χριστὸν κηρύσσουσιν: 16. οἱ μὲν ἐξ Chap. it
" ἐριθείας 2 τὸν ὅ
θλίψιν ἐπιφέρειν * τοῖς δεσμοῖς µου: 17. ot δὲ ἐξ ἀγάπης, εἰδότες
infra. t Acts xvii. 3; Col. i. 28.
1 εξ εριθειας. . .
Χριστὸν " καταγγέλλουσιν, οὐχ " ἁγνῶς, " οἰόμενοι
Often in Acts, v In N.T. only found besides in John xxi. 25; Jas.
13; Eph. τς ο, Several exx, in Sirach. s See note
Only twice in LXX. u Only here in N.T.
ἔν
to end of ver. 16 and εξ αγαπης . . . to end of ver. 17 change
places. So all edd. with NABD*EFGP 17, 23, 17, ἆ, ϱ, g, go. sah. cop. arm.
zth., Bas., Euth.cod., Tert., Victorin.
Non-transposition only found in ΠΡ εἰς KL
(which om. οι μεν εξ εριθ. . . . Seop. p.), Chr., Thdrt.
38ο ΝΑΒέΚΡ. εριθιας DEFG 114.
τον with Xca.BFG, Chr.cod. 1 So DcEKL, Chr., Thdrt.
sah. cop. arm. zth., Aug., Ambrst. (DbP, Euth.cod. επεγειρειν).
προσφερειν.
ferred to here are Pauline Christians who for some reason have a personal pique at the Apostle. (Cf. Ws., Amer. $. of Theol., i., 2, pp. 388-389, who throws out the interesting suggestion that they may have been old teachers of the Church who had become jealous of Paul’s high position, and so wished to outstrip him and destroy his popularity.) ‘Paul says no- thing here which I have not experienced ” (6αἱν.).----τινὲς δὲ καί. Although not explicitly, these, of course, belong to the πλείονες of ver. 14. καί marks the con- trast with the preceding clause. — δι εὐδοκίαν. The word can mean nothing else here than “goodwill”. For it is placed in antithesis to φθόνος and ἔρις, and resumed by ἀγάπη below. Cf. Sirach, ix., 12, μὴ εὐδοκήσῃς ἐν εὐδοκίᾳ ἀσεβῶν.
Vy. 16-17. An overwhelming mass of authority is in favour of transposing these verses as above (see crit. note). TR. is simply an emendation based on the order in ver. 15.—Ver. 16. οἱ μὲν ἐξ ἀγάπης. Is this a complete phrase or does ἐξ ay. qualify the predicate τ. Xp. κηρύσσ. sup- plied from ver. 15? The latter seems most natural, as it preserves the complete parallelism of the clauses, which would otherwise be disturbed by οὐχ ayvas.— κεῖμαι has practically become perf. pas- sive of τίθημι. τέθειμαι is seldom used. (See Gildersleeve on Justin M., Apol., i., 11, 6.) Exactly parallel are Luke ii. 34, οὗτος κεῖται εἰς πτῶσιν Kal ἀνάστασιν πολλῶν ; τ Thess. ili. 3, αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἴδατε ὅτι εἰς τοῦτο κείμεθα. ‘Am appointed.”
Ver. 17. ἐξ ἐριθείας. Here virtually = “selfishness” (rather than ‘ factious- ness’’). Originally, the character of a
(See Ws., TK., p. 141.)
3 So Ti., W.H. (f1) with S*ADEKP, Bas., Chr., Euth.cod., Thdrt. Trg., Alf., Lach. bracket τον.
All edd. εγειρειν with NABD*FG 17, 31, O.L. vg.
Ws. om. δ Thphyl. (mg.j
worker for pay. Now that which de- graded the hired worker, in the estima- tion of antiquity, was his labouring wholly for his own interests, while it was a sign of the noble to devote himself to the com- mon weal. This sense suits all N.T. passages (Rom. ii. 8, 2 Cor. xii. 20, Gal. ν. 20, Jas. iii. 14, 16). See Hpt.’s valu- able note from which the above is con- densed.—rév Χ. Itis hard tosay whether τόν ought to be retained. It would easily be accounted for as an assimilation to τὸν X. in ver. 15.—katayy. A distinction has been drawn between καταγγ. as confined to those sent by Christ and κηρύσσ. as applying to all preachers, including our Lord Himself. Probably they are quite synonymous here. Cf. an excellent note in Westcott (on 1 John i. 5) on the special signification of katayy. among compounds of ἀγγέλλω = “ pro- claim with authority, as commissioned to spread the tidings throughout those who hear them”’.—ovx ayv. ‘ With mixed motives.” Cf. Pind., ΟἹ., iii., 37, μεγάλων ἀέθλων ἁγνὰν κρίσιν (quoted by Alf.).— οἰόμενοι. ‘ Purposing.’’ So frequently in later Greek. Schmid (Atticismus, i., 128) quotes from Dio Chrys., Aristides and Philostratus. Cf. Phryn. (ed. Lobeck), 190, βιβλίον . . . ὅπερ οἴεται δηλοῦν. There is a sharp contrast between εἰδότες in νετ. 16 and οἰόμενοι Πετε.---θλίψιν ἐγείρειν τ. Seop. µ. The balance of authority is in favour of ἐγείρειν. ἐπι- φέρειν is probably an ancient gloss, which may have crept into some text from the margin. The phrase apparently means ‘to stir up vexation for me in my im- prisonment”’. They attributed their own jealous feelings to the Apostle, and could