disposition so completely op to his own. Cf. τ Cor. κ. 33, μὴ ζητῶν τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ σύμφορον ἀλλὰ τὸ τῶν πολλῶν.
See esp. Calvin's excellent note ad loc.— Χ.Ἰ. The authorities are almost equally balanced as to the readings. See on chap. i. 1 supr.
Ver. 22. δοκιμήν. ‘ Approvedness.” That character which emerges as the result of testing. Cf. Jas. i. 12.—@s war. τέκ. κ.τ.λ. A mixed construction, the result of refined feeling. Paul first thinks of Timothy as his son in the G serving him with ason’s devotion. But before the sentence is finished, his lowli- ness reminds him that they are both alike servants of a common Lord, equal in His sight.—els seems here practically equiv. to ἐν, as so frequently in later Greek. The fact is one of real importance for exegesis. (See Hatz., Einl., p. 210;
20---25.
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εὐαγγέλιον. 23. τοῦτον μὲν οὖν ἐλπίζω πέμψαι, ξ ὡς ἂν ἀπίδω 1 τὰ 5 ο μα,
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περὶ ἐμέ, ἢ ἐξαυτῆς' 24. πέποιθα δὲ ἐν Κυρίῳ, ὅτι καὶ αὐτὸς ταχέως " See note €hevcouar.” 25. ἀναγκαῖον δὲ ἡγησάμην Ἐπαφρόδιτον τὸν ἀδελφὸν i νο
τα
και —
.. 3 ‘ συνεργον και
Paul's writings.
1So Ws. with B°C (απειδω) DcEKsil.LP, Chr., Thdrt.
συστρατιώτην * μου, ὑμῶν δὲ ' ἀπόστολον, καὶ
See esp. Rom. xvi. 3,9, 21; Philm. 24; 2 Macc. viii. 7. 1 John xiii. 16; 2 Cor. viii. 23; 1 Kings xiv. 6 (A.).
xX. 1n
N.T. only one out- side
k Philm. 2.
Ti., Ττρ., W.H., Alf.
αφιδω with SAB*D*FG 17, Euth.cod. Ws. admits that αφ. is better attested, but considers it, nevertheless, to be an ancient copyist’s blunder, due to the analogy οἱ
ἀφορᾶν.
εφιδε. (TK., Ρ. 141.
He compares επισταται (εφ.) in 1 Thess. ν. 3. See also W-Sch., p. 39, @).
See also Acts iv. 29, v./.,
? So edd. with 4cBDEFGKL, d, e, g, syrP. arm. δίῃ. go., Euth.cod., Thdrt., Dam., Victorin. προς υµας added by ΝΛΟΡ 23, 39, 57, 115, f, vg. cop. syrsch.,
Chr.*, Thphl., Ambrst.
Ws. (TK., p. 109) gives exx. of prepositional additions of
this kind appearing in ancient as well as later MSS.
8 Om. D*, d, e, Victorin., Ambrst.
* *SoNBKLP. Edd. συνστρατ. with ACDEFG. This is one of the orthogra- phical points on which Bousset (Textkrit. Studien, pp. 102, 103) bases a grouping of
N.T. MSS., assigning $B to the Hesychian recension.
cussion,
Schmid, Atticismus, i., Ῥ. 91: Krum- bacher, Kuhn’s Zeitschr., 27, pp. 543- 544). One can hardly discover here the idea of purpose.
Ver. 23. μέν. He emphasises the com- ing of Timothy as distinct from his own. —os av. Cf. Rom. xv. 24, 1 Cor. xi. 34. “Ας soon as I shall have thoroughly ascertained my position.” This temporal use of ὡς ἄν seems foreign to classical prose. It almost means ‘according as I shall”. ἄν marks the uncertainty which surrounds the whole prospect. (See W-M., p. 387; Viteau, Le Verbe, p. 126.) --ὀὠὀπίδω. On the form see the crit. note supy. ἀπό emphasises his turning away his attention from other things and con- centrating it upon his own situation, 7.e., gaining a definite knowledge of how his affairs stand. Mynster (Kleine Theolog. Schriften, p. 173) points out that this verse proves that the Epistle could not have been written at Cesarea.—éfaurifjs. Chiefly in Acts in N.T. = Latin ilico. A Hellenistic word. See Phrynichus (ed. Lobeck), 47.
Ver. 24. ἐν Κυρίῳ. See on ver. 10. Every mood of Paul’s inner life he desires to regulate by the mind and will of Christ.—ért. ‘ When an action is to be produced, πείθειν takes the infinitive, when belief, ὅτι (of objective knowledge) sometimes infinitive ’’ (Gildersl. on Justin M., Afol., i., 8, 8).
Vv. 25-30. News ΟΕ EPAPHRODITUS: A CORDIAL WELCOME FOR HIM AT PHILIPPI
See his very important dis-
BESPOKEN.—Ver. 25. This verse opens a passage which Clemen (of. cit., pp. 138-141) assigns to the second of the two letters into which he proposes to divide the Epistle. See our Introduction. The Apostle, as a matter of fact, passes most naturally from the two visits which he half promises to the return of Epaphro- ditus, which is an immediate certainty.— ἡγησ. Epistolary aorist. He writes from the point of view of those who receive the letter.— Emad. Only mentioned in this Epistle, unless we are to suppose him to be the same person as Ἐπαφρᾶς of Col. i. 7, Philm., 23. Such contractions of names were quite common, ¢.g., Ζηνᾶς = Ζηνόδωρος, Μενέστας = Μενέστρατος (see W-Sch., pp. 142-143). But this hypothesis ill accords with the description in Col. iv. 12, Ἐπ. ὁ ἐξ ὑμῶν, to say nothing of the fact that, on our view of the dating of the Imprisonment-Epistles, Epaphras would by this time have left Rome.—46. κ. συνεργ.κ. συστρ. Aptly Anselm: Frater in fide, cooperator in praedicatione, commilito in adversis. There is no need to suppose (with Gw.) that συνεργ. implies that Epaphroditus was in the ministry, or (with Ws.) that συστρ. points to Paul’s conflict at Phil- ippi. Both terms suit his circumstances at Ῥοπῃε.-- ὑμῶν δὲ ἀπ. κ. λειτ. τ. Xp. μ. ἀπόστολος is always used of some one entrusted with a mission ; it is a word of dignified tone. Moule (PS., p. 133) thinks we have here “a gentle pleas-